HARRIS v. MUNICIPAL COURT FOR CITY OF WILMINGTON


256 A.2d 674 (1969)

Marian A. HARRIS, Roy L. Wagstaff, John C. Thomas, Kenneth H. Horowitz, Nannie F. Caulk, Paul N. Wilson, H. Blake Wilson, Pauline C. Wilson, William Hodsdon, and Mary Hodsdon, Petitioners, v. The MUNICIPAL COURT FOR the CITY OF WILMINGTON and the Honorable Thomas Herlihy, Jr., Chief Judge of said Court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Rehearing Denied August 20, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Taylor, Jr. of Taylor & Lindh, Wilmington, for petitioners.

Victor J. Colombo, Asst. City Sol., for Wilmington.

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice, HERRMANN, Justice, and QUILLEN, Judge, sitting.


WOLCOTT, Chief Justice:

The questions here decided arise upon a Petition for a Writ of Prohibition seeking to prevent the Municipal Court of Wilmington from proceeding in a case against ten individuals charged with trespass and conspiracy to trespass in violation of 11 Del.C. §§ 105 and 871. The facts underlying the charges are not involved at this stage of the proceedings but, briefly, they involve a sit-in by the petitioners in the office of a real estate...

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