Lankenau Hospital v. Madway

189 A.2d 592, 410 Pa. 268

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: March 19, 1963
• Docket: Appeal, 115
• Status: Published

Opinion

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.