Lukens v. Lasher

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Lukens v. Lasher, 202 Pa. 327 (Pa. 1902)
51 A. 887
Brown, Dean, Fell, McCollum, Mestbezat

Lukens v. Lasher

Opinion of the Court

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Fell,

The case presented by the plaintiff did not call for equitable interference by injunction. If the wall was not strictly a party wall, by common consent of the parties it had been so treated. The negotiations for the price to be paid for its use were with the mutual understanding that it was a party wall, and they terminated in an agreement on a sum, subject to be enlarged or diminished by a measurement, which was paid by the defendant. As there was not a final adjustment of the matter of compensation, it would have been better that the decree should have reserved any right the plaintiff may have in that regard. To avoid any question in the future, the decree is amended so that the dismissal of the bill is without prejudice to the right of the plaintiffs to recover whatever may be due them, and as so amended the decree is affirmed.

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Party ivall — Injunction—Equity. A bill in equity to restrain the use of a wall cannot be sustained where it appears that the wall by common consent of the parties had been treated as a party wall, that negotiations for the price to be paid for its use had been conducted with the mutual understanding that it was a party wall, and that such negotiations had terminated in an agreement on a sum, subject to be enlarged or diminished by a measurement, which was paid to the plaintiffs. In such a ease where it appears that there had been no final adjustment of the matter of compensation, the decree dismissing the bill should be without prejudice to the right of the plaintiffs to recover whatever may be due them.