WYNNEWOOD C. ASSN. v. L. MERION TWP. B. of A.


406 Pa. 413 (1962)

Wynnewood Civic Association, Appellant, v. Lower Merion Township Board of Adjustment.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 13, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo Vernon, with him Desmond J. McTighe, J. Grant McCabe, III, and William W. Cancelmo, for appellant.

Robert L. Trescher, with him Arthur H. Moss, Cassin W. Craig, C. Brewster Rhoads, and Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, and Wisler, Pearlstine, Talone & Gerber, for corporation, appellee.

Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., with him John E. Forsythe, Township Solicitor, and Wright, Mauck & Spencer, for Board of Adjustment of Lower Merion Township and Lower Merion Township, appellees.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.


OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE BENJAMIN R. JONES, March 13, 1962:

This is a controversy between the owner of a tract of land, located in Wynnewood, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, who seeks to erect thereon a twelve-story apartment building, and a civic association, composed of residents in and about the area, which opposes the erection of such building. In the background of this controversy is a record of litigation, extending in time over a decade, before the...

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