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CITY OF WILMINGTON v. LORD

378 A.2d 635 (1977)

The CITY OF WILMINGTON, a Municipal Corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Edwin C. E. LORD, Jr., Marry D. Lord, Davis L. Lewis, Eugenia H. Lewis, David H. Conklin, and Jeanette Conklin, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided September 21, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Sheridan, Asst. City Sol., Wilmington, for defendant below, appellant.

William Poole of Potter, Anderson & Coroon, Wilmington, for plaintiffs below, appellees.

Before HERRMANN, C. J., and DUFFY and McNEILLY, JJ.

McNEILLY, Justice.

Defendant, City of Wilmington, appeals from the granting of a permanent injunction by the Court of Chancery prohibiting the City from building a water tank on land conveyed to the City for use as a public park. The appeal represents the culmination of a continuing battle between plaintiffs, suing in their capacity as citizens and taxpayers, attempting to stop what they consider to be a misuse of public...

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