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TIDEWATER OIL CO. v. POORE et al.

395 Pa. 89 (1959)

Tidewater Oil Company v. Poore (et al., Appellant).

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

March 16, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William A. Welsh for Board of Commissioners of Upper Chichester Township, intervening appellants.

Guy G. deFuria, with him J. Robert Twombley, and deFuria, Larkin and deFuria, for property owners, intervening appellants.

Albert Blumberg, with him Arthur Levy, and McClenachan, Blumberg & Levy, for appellee.

Before JONES, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN and McBRIDE, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE MUSMANNO, March 16, 1959:

Viewed from an airplane in midflight, a "tank farm" looks like a field dotted with neat, dignified mushrooms. Visited on the ground, however, a tank farm looks exactly like what it is — a succession of mastodonic, metallic tanks filled with liquids and gases of an inflammable and explosive character. The tanks under consideration in this case, 9 to 40 in number, were designed to measure from 40 to 48 feet in...

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