Case ID: pa_410/html/0268-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lankenau Hospital, Appellant, v. Madway.
    Argued January 18, 1963.
    Before Bell, C. J., Musmanno, Jones, Cohen, Eagen, O’Brien and Roberts, JJ.
    reargument refused April 16, 1963.
    
      
      John R. McConnell, with Mm Anthony H. Whitaker, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, for appellant.
    
      Victor J. Roberts, with Mm Gerald Broker, Marvin Comisky, William B. Rudenko, and Sigh, Swartz, Roberts & Seidel, and Blank, Rudenko, Klaus & Rome, for appellees.
    March 19, 1963:
   Opinion

Per Curiam,

Appellant filed a complaint asMng an injunction against the erection of an apartment building 11 stories high, based upon an alleged promissory estoppel. Appellant alleged that it was induced by appellees not to object to or protest a down-grading of the nearby neighborhood, i.e., a rezoning from R-3 to R-7 to permit the erection of two to four 5-story apartment buildings by the representations of appellees that they sought merely to erect two or four apartment buildings five stories high. It further alleged that the same misrepresentations were made to the Township Commissioners, although they were not joined as parties nor was any relief sought against them.

Thereafter the Township Commissioners passed an ordinance which allowed appellees (and other property owners) to erect apartment buildings eleven stories high. Appellant did not allege fraud, or that it had expended any money on the faith of appellees’ misrepresentations, or that it had suffered any irreparable damage. The lower Court sustained preliminary objections and dismissed appellant’s complaint.

Order affirmed; each party to pay own costs.