STATE v. 0.62033 ACRES OF LAND IN CHRISTIANA HUNDRED


110 A.2d 1 (1954)

The STATE of Delaware, Upon the Relation of Hugh R. SHARP, Jr., J. Draper Brown, Jr., Benjamin F. Shaw, II, J. Gordon Smith, William P. Richardson, Frank R. Grier and Dallas D. Culver, constituting the State Highway Department of the State of Delaware, Plaintiffs, v. 0.62033 ACRES OF LAND IN CHRISTIANA HUNDRED, NEW CASTLE COUNTY and State of Delaware, Harvey C. Fenimore, Annie F. Fenimore, his wife, John Robinson Fenimore, Helen L. Fenimore, his wife, Thomas C. Hawke, Hilda M. Hawke, his wife, and Unknown Owners, Defendants.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.

December 7, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Booker, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

James R. Morford and George L. Sands (of Morford & Bennethum), Wilmington, for defendants.


HERRMANN, Judge.

Under the power of eminent domain conferred in 17 Del.C. § 1381, the State Highway Department seeks to take certain real property owned by the defendants.

The proceeding was instituted under the condemnation procedural Statute, 10 Del.C. Ch. 61. The plaintiffs filed a complaint, made a deposit of estimated just compensation and filed a notice of intention to take possession...

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