STOKES v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OF CITY OF DOVER


285 A.2d 813 (1971)

Elmer STOKES and Anna F. Stokes v. The BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OF the CITY OF DOVER, Honorable Crawford J. Carroll, Mayor, et al.

Superior Court of Delaware, Kent.

December 21, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Behen Maybee, Dover, for appellants.

Nicholas H. Rodriguez, Dover, for appellees.


OPINION

CHRISTIE, Judge.

This case involves an appeal from a decision of the Board of Adjustment of the City of Dover in which that Board refused to grant plaintiffs a variance so as to permit the completion of an alteration to their house which was then under way.

Most of the pertinent facts are not in dispute. Plaintiffs' house was built before the land on which it stands became a part of the City of Dover. The development in question was annexed...

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