Smith v. McCarthy

McGOVERN, J.,

Defendants have filed preliminary objections to plaintiffs’ amended complaint.

Plaintiffs, students at Villanova University, were offered grants-in-aid by defendants (on or about April 6, 1971). Plaintiffs accepted these grants by letter on or about April 20, 1971. Subsequently (circa April 26, 1973), defendants notified plaintiffs that their grants had been terminated because of plaintiffs’ withdrawal from the football program at Villanova. Plaintiffs instituted this action to enjoin defendants from interferring with plaintiffs’ grants-in-aid or from dishonoring the alleged aid…