Young v. Oviatt

Citations

• 35 Pa. Super. 603
• 1908 Pa. Super. LEXIS 89

Syllabus

<p>Contract — Deed—Base fee — Reversion-^-Personal property — Fixtures— Railroads.</p> <p>Where an owner of land conveys to a railroad company a lot “for the purpose of erecting, maintaining and using thereon the necessary buildings ” for a railroad station, and the railroad company builds a station, but subsequently abandons it and sells the building, the reversion of the land to the original owner does not carry with it the building, and the owner cannot maintain a bill in equity to restrain the purchaser of the building from removing it. In such a case if the owner is in any way injured by the removal of the building, he has an adequate remedy at law.</p>