14.098 ACRES OF LAND, ETC., v. BOARD OF EDUCATION


265 A.2d 36 (1970)

14.098 ACRES OF LAND, MORE OR LESS, Situate IN BRANDYWINE HUNDRED, NEW CASTLE COUNTY, State of Delaware, Marion L. Rentz and Harry E. Rentz, Jr., her husband, Ernest Lodge Vail and Franklin G. Banks, Guardian of Ernest Lodge Vail, and Unknown Owners, Defendants Below, Appellants, v. BOARD OF EDUCATION OF the CLAYMONT SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

April 10, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Booker, of Booker, Leshem, Green, Shaffer & Berl, Wilmington, for appellants Marion L. Rentz and Harry E. Rentz, Jr.

Harvey Porter, Wilmington, for appellant Franklin G. Banks, Guardian of Ernest Lodge Vail.

Robert V. Huber, Wilmington, for appellee.

WOLCOTT, Chief Justice, and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.


CAREY, Justice.

The appellants, Marion L. Rentz and Harry E. Rentz, Jr., her husband, Ernest Lodge Vail, and Franklin G. Banks, Guardian of Ernest Lodge Vail, are the defendants in a condemnation suit brought by appellee, Board of Education of Claymont Special School District, in Superior Court. Appellants owned a tract of land in Brandywine Hundred which the appellee needed for school purposes. The award made after trial...

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