Gateway Trading Co. v. Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

This is an appeal from a final decree of the Washington County Court of Common Pleas, sitting in equity, granting plaintiff-appellee’s prayer for specific performance of an alleged obligation of defendant Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh to convey to plaintiff certain property situated in Peters Township and declaring invalid a sales agreement for said property which was entered into by the Hospital and the Fourth Allegheny Corporation, defendants-appellants herein.

The facts of the case are as follows: In 1964 one Edith Dawson owned certain land fronting on…