Court Opinion

ID: 9747717
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 15:28:50.14867+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:25.928452
License: Public Domain

ROBERTS, Justice,
concurring.
In Ranck v. Bonal Enterprises, Inc., 467 Pa. 569, 359 A.2d 748 (1976), a majority of this Court held that the lawful operation of a bookstore can never be enjoined as a nuisance because it is unpopular and therefore the target of violence. Id. at 579-581, 359 A.2d at 753-54 (concurring opinion of Roberts, J., joined by Pomeroy, Nix and Manderino, JJ.). Here, the Chancellor premised the injunction on a determination that businesses similar to appellant’s located in other counties had been subject to actual or attempted violence. I join the majority opinion believing that today’s decision reversing the Chancellor’s decree is based upon the views expressed by the majority of this Court in Ranch, supra.