STELLER v. DAVID


257 A.2d 391 (1969)

John Delbert STELLER and Mary A. Steller, his wife, Plaintiffs, v. Lee Woodkeeper DAVID and Anna A. David and Mary F. David, his wife; Miss Nora David; and Mrs. Hilda David Kemp and Dudley Kemp, her husband, Defendants.

Superior Court of Delaware, New Castle.

July 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert W. James and George C. Hering, III, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

Thomas G. Hughes, of O'Donnell, Hughes & Lowicki, Wilmington, for defendants.


STIFTEL, President Judge.

This is an ejectment action. It concerns marshland in Blackbird Hundred to which plaintiffs claim they received title by deed from Eleanor Brynberg Johnson on August 5, 1946. Defendants argue that the 1946 conveyance to the Stellers was a nullity because they claim their father, James Harry David, had acquired this land considerably before this time under the doctrine of adverse possession. This marsh tract, known as Tract No. 2, borders...

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