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UNITED STATES v. LAND TITLE BANK & TRUST CO.

No. 6252.

90 F.2d 970 (1937)

UNITED STATES v. LAND TITLE BANK & TRUST CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

June 14, 1937.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry W. Blair, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles D. McAvoy, U. S. Atty., and Thomas J. Curtin, Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., and Ralph S. Boyd, of Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Leonard Orloff and Arthur S. Arnold, both of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees.

Before BUFFINGTON, DAVIS, and BIGGS, Circuit Judges.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

In this case it appears the United States acquired — not by condemnation, but by purchase — a lot in the city of Chester, Pa., on which it has built a post office. The lot adjoining is owned by the University of Pennsylvania.

By the law of Pennsylvania adjoining lot owners have mutual property rights and property obligations in reference to party walls. Thus in Jackman v. Rosenbaum Co., 263 Pa. 158, 106 A. 238, 240...

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