REEVE v. HAWKE


136 A.2d 196 (1957)

Charles H. REEVE, Jr., trading as Reeve Tastee-Freez, Plaintiff, v. Edmund R. HAWKE, Blanche Hawke, and Nathan Porter, trading as Harvey's Diner, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

November 8, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. James Conaway, Jr., Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Charles L. Paruszewski, Wilmington, for defendants Edmund R. Hawke and Blanche Hawke.

Joseph H. Flanzer, Wilmington, for defendant Nathan Porter.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

On July 23, 1953, the defendants, Edmund R. Hawke and1 Blanche Hawke, his wife, leased to the2 plaintiff a tract of land situate on the southeasterly side of Maryland Avenue in Christiana Hundred. This tract has a frontage of 100 feet on Maryland Avenue and a similar frontage on Champlain Avenue, an intersecting unopened street. The term of the lease was fixed at five years with the...

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