Yingst v. Harrisburg

Citations

• 43 Pa. Super. 418
• 1910 Pa. Super. LEXIS 64

Syllabus

<p>Sewers — Contract—Estoppel.</p> <p>Where a city pays a landowner a sum of money as a consideration for permission to build a sewer through his land, and the owner examines or has access to the maps, plans and profiles, and stands by while a manhole is being constructed on his premises and makes no objection thereto, and it appears that the manhole was an essential incident to the sewer, such owner cannot years afterwards maintain an action against the city for injuries to his land resulting from the construction and maintenance of the manhole.</p>