Socket v. Norristown Transit Co.

Citations

• 62 Pa. Super. 542
• 1916 Pa. Super. LEXIS 469

Syllabus

<p>Deeds — Boundaries—Street of boundary — Middle line of street— Presumption.</p> <p>A conveyance of land bounded by a road or street gives the grantee a title to the middle of the road or street if the grantor owned thereto, and in the absence of title papers showing a contrary restriction, the presumption is that a lot bounded by a street extends to the middle of it. It is a burden of the person asserting the contrary to overcome this presumption.</p> <p>Street railways — Elevated railway — Occupation of street — Obstruction of light and air.</p> <p>Where a street railway company constructs an elevated railway track on one side of the cartway and sidewalk of a street, and thereby obstructs the light and air to a house built on an abutting lot, the owner of which owns the fee to the middle line of the street, the railway company will be liable in damages to the owner for such obstruction of light and air.</p>