Court Opinion

ID: 9517195
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 00:07:49.333566+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:41:11.443672
License: Public Domain

Mr. JUSTICE EBERSPACHER, dissenting: I agree, as the majority states, “A court of chancery can balance the hardships involved and grant relief upon whatever terms it deems equitable when the owner of either the dominant or the servient estate interferes with the rights of the other, under a mistaken belief that he owns the area or structure in dispute.” That, however, is not the function of an intermediate reviewing court. It appears that the trial court has applied that principle, after hearing the testimony and examining the premises. It has obviously balanced the hardships involved and granted relief upon terms it deemed equitable. The majority is saying, balance the hardships again and grant relief upon different terms which we consider equitable. If the principal is to be here applied, the uncontradicted testimony that there is and was at the point where the bridge existed, an inadequate amount of water to boat, ski or swim, has to be, and obviously was, taken into consideration.