Young v. Hall

Opinion by

Mb. Justice Cohen,

This appeal is from a decree of the lower court entered pursuant to defendants’ preliminary objections requesting dismissal or a more specific complaint. The lower court dismissed appellants’ complaint ..in equity for laches. The complaint sought an accounting of profits realized by defendants from the sale of certain real estate and other relief. The lower court found laches because the delay in instituting the action was constructively prejudicial to the defendants by analogy to the expiration of the period of the statute of limitations at law. Philadelphia v.…