Lamb v. Allegheny County Institution District

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

There are two reasons why plaintiff is not entitled to the specific performance which he is here seeking of a contract for the purchase of land. One is that the contract did not receive the approval of the court required by statute, the other that the action is barred by the statute of limitations.

By the Act of April 23,1852, P. L. 423, a corporation Avas created under the title of “The directors of the poor and of the house of employment for the county of Allegheny,” — a name that was changed by the supplementary Act of May 4, 1864, P. L. 760, to “Allegheny…