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MADDREY v. JUSTICE OF PEACE COURT 13

No. 616, 2007.

956 A.2d 1204 (2008)

Cornelia MADDREY, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. JUSTICE OF the PEACE COURT 13 and Arbor Management, d/b/a Compton Town Associates, LP, Defendants Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: September 5, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric M. Davis (argued) and Mark Desgrosseilliers, Wilmington, Delaware, and Deborah I. Gottschalk, Community Legal Aid Society, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, for appellant.

Michael P. Morton, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee Arbor Management, d/b/a Compton Town Associates, LP.

Jennifer D. Oliva and Lawrence W. Lewis, Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee Justice of the Peace Court 13.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices constituting the court en banc.

STEELE, Chief Justice.

Cornelia Maddrey appeals from a Superior Court judge's order, on a writ of certiorari, confirming a Justice of the Peace Court's order of possession to her landlord Arbor Management, d/b/a Compton Town Associates, LP (Compton). Split authority in Delaware courts over where common law writs of certiorari lie, and how those writs in Justice of the Peace Court summary possession cases should be reviewed, prompts us to answer three...

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