• Venema v. Moser Builders, Inc.

    Publication Date: 2022-10-24
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Construction
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Pellegrini
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 2370 EDA 2021

    Trial court properly found appellant homeowners' claims against home builder were time barred by the statute of repose where the certificate of occupancy for the house issued in 2003 and appellants filed their complaint more than 12 years later. Affirmed.

  • Olszewski v. Parry

    Publication Date: 2022-10-17
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry:
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Stabile
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 1348 WDA 2021

    Trial court correctly held appellee satisfied all three elements needed to establish an easement by necessity and ordered appellant to remove a fence barring access to a private road. Affirmed.

  • Castaldo v. Dohn

    Publication Date: 2022-09-12
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Zulick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0895

    Plaintiffs were not required to produce the testimony of their former neighbors to prove a binding consentable line by recognition and acquiescence as the evidence of record clearly established that the former neighbors acquiesced to three spruce trees as the boundary line between the two properties. The court granted plaintiffs relief in this action to quiet title.

  • Funk v. Empfield

    Publication Date: 2022-09-05
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Superior Court
    Judge: Judge Kunselman
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0999

    Order denying exceptions to master's report in partition action was not appealable where trial court had yet to finally resolve the partition. Appeal quashed.

  • Laurel Hill Game & Forestry Club v. Brion

    Publication Date: 2022-08-15
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Mining and Resources | Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Lycoming County
    Judge: Judge Linhardt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
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    Case Number: 22-0810

    Court granted International Development Corporation's request for summary judgment and denied plaintiff corporation's request for summary judgment in case regarding the granting of subsurface rights in a deed tracing back to the 1800's. While plaintiff asserted the deed conveying the property to them merely referenced prior deeds reserving subsurface rights, the court agreed with IDC that the prior deeds were not merely copied but were in fact, incorporated into the deed for the purposes of reserving rights. Otherwise, the court reaso

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  • In re: Petition of the Twp. of Jackson to Sell Lot 107

    Publication Date: 2022-08-15
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Leavitt
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0912

    Trial court properly denied municipality's petition to sell land dedicated for public use where township failed to show that public use had become impractical and where township fostered residents' belief that the land would remain open space. Order of the trial court affirmed.

  • Indian Mountain Lake Civic Ass'n v. Berger

    Publication Date: 2022-08-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Zulick
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0845

    Court partially granted preliminary objections arising from a property law dispute between a community owning a planned subdivision and a defendant resident. While defendant argued plaintiff's attempt to collect payment for her use of a recorded easement was not properly pled pursuant to the Uniform Planned Community Act, the court indicated plaintiff's attached declaration sufficiently described the property in question. The court did, however, agree plaintiff mistakenly referred to a wrong deed in part of their complaint and indicat

  • Toth v. Pocono Farms Golf & Country Club

    Publication Date: 2022-08-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Williamson
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    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0849

    Trespass claim based on stormwater discharge failed where property owner provided no expert testimony to establish increased discharge or to calculate damages, and where owner was aware of discharge onto the property prior to their purchase. Defendants' motion for summary judgment granted.

  • Schryver v. Twp. of Smithfield

    Publication Date: 2022-08-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Courts of Common Pleas, Monroe County
    Judge: Judge Higgins
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0848

    Where plaintiffs asserted that defendant violated the state's Storm Water Management Act and sought remedies under §15 of that act, which provides that remedies for actions in equity are to restrain, prevent or abate violation of the act or any watershed storm water plan, plaintiffs were limited to such statutory remedies. The court issued an order limiting damages.

  • Erastov v. City of Philadelphia

    Publication Date: 2022-08-08
    Practice Area: Real Estate
    Industry: Real Estate | State and Local Government
    Court: Commonwealth Court
    Judge: Judge Wallace
    Attorneys: For plaintiff:
    for defendant:

    Case Number: 22-0893

    Negligence in real property exception to governmental immunity under the judicial code did not apply to claims arising from a local property tax sale, particularly where municipality never had legal possession of the property during the sale process. Order of the trial court affirmed.