GOLEN v. UNION CORP.


718 A.2d 298 (1998)

Stewart R. GOLEN, Individually, and t/a Stewart R. Golen Partnership, Appellants, v. The UNION CORPORATION, U.C.O.-M.B.A., Inc., Irvin G. Schorsch, Jr. and John B. Schorsch, Appellees.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed September 2, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. McCaney, Jr., Blue Bell, for appellants.

John Mattioni, Philadelphia, for Union Corp., U.C.O.-M.B.A., Inc., appellees.

Drew S. Dorfman, Philadelphia, for Irvin G. Schorsch, appellees.

Before HUDOCK, MUSMANNO and OLSZEWSKI, JJ.


OLSZEWSKI, Judge:

This appeal presents the question of whether private nuisance provides a remedy for a landowner who cannot sell his or her property because of neighboring environmental contamination, when the contamination does not otherwise affect the landowner's use of the property. The trial court granted appellees' motion for summary judgment, finding that private nuisance does not provide a remedy. We affirm.

Both appellants' and appellees' property...

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