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Pile v. Pedrick | 31 A. 647 (1895)

It’s often said that the law doesn’t care about trifles, which means that courts generally won’t adjudicate cases where the plaintiff’s injury is so minor as to be negligible. But some kinds of injuries, no matter how small, aren’t treated as trifles, as the Pennsylvania Supreme Court demonstrated in Pile versus Pedrick.

Joseph Pile and Daniel Pedrick were neighbors. Pedrick wanted to build a factory on his own land. Because Pedrick’s architect warned him that running the factory could cause vibrations that might harm others, Pedrick wanted to be sure his factory was located entirely on his own property. Pedrick hired a surveyor to find the line between his property and Pile’s and was careful to build inside that line. Unfortunately, the surveyor made a mistake, and the edge of Pedrick’s foundation extended just under one and a half inches onto Pile’s land, under the surface. Pedrick’s factory wall was entirely on Pedrick’s property. When he discovered the mistake, Pedrick offered Pile the opportunity to use the wall himself, but Pile declined. Pile sued, and the trial court offered him the choice to treat the intrusion as a permanent trespass for which he’d be compensated in damages or to order Pedrick to remove the offending portion of the foundation. Pile chose the latter, and the court issued an injunction ordering Pedrick to move the foundation to his side of the line. Pile then refused to grant Pedrick permission to come onto Pile’s property to chip off the edges of the foundation to fix the problem. Pedrick was left with no alternative but to tear down the wall completely and rebuild. Pedrick appealed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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