Opinion
December 1, 1955.
January 4, 1956.
Equity — Jurisdiction — Zoning ordinance — Validity — Statutory procedure — Exclusiveness — Act of March 21, 1806, P. L. 558, § 13.
Barth v. Gorson, 383 Pa. 611, followed.
Argued December 1, 1955. Before STERN, C. J., STEARNE, JONES, BELL, MUSMANNO and ARNOLD, JJ.
Appeals, Nos. 313 and 314, Jan. T., 1955, from decrees of Court of Common Pleas No. 5 of Philadelphia County, June T., 1954, Nos. 1774 and 1160, in cases of George L. Seifert et ux. v. Lillian M. Maeder et al.; and Joseph Schmitz, Jr., et ux. v. Lillian M. Maeder et al. Decrees affirmed; reargument refused January 27, 1956.
Bills in equity.
Defendants' preliminary objections sustained and decrees entered dismissing bills, opinion by WEINROTT, J. Plaintiffs appealed.
William A. Gray, with him Walter Stein and Gray, Anderson Schaffer, for appellants.
James L. Stern, Deputy City Solicitor and Louis J. Goffman, with them Matthew W. Bullock, Assistant City Solicitor, Abraham L. Freedman, City Solicitor, and Wolf, Block, Schorr Solis-Cohen, for appellees.
The decrees are affirmed on the opinion in Barth v. Gorson, 383 Pa. 611, 119 A.2d 309. Costs to be paid by appellants.