SHELLBURNE, INC. v. CONNER


269 A.2d 409 (1970)

SHELLBURNE, INC., a corporation of the State of Delaware, Plaintiff, v. William J. CONNER, Executive, C. Douglas Buck, Jr., President, John D. Daniello, Joseph F. Dayton, Henry Folsom, Harrison E. Frohock, Thomas J. Kealy, Richard Sincock, John J. Smith, and Joseph F. Toner, Constituting the County Council of New Castle County, and New Castle County, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

August 3, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Booker, of Booker, Leshem, Green & Shaffer, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Harvey B. Rubenstein and Clarence W. Taylor, Wilmington, for defendants.


SHORT, Vice Chancellor:

This case is the latest in a series of actions brought to enjoin the rezoning of a block of land situate in the development known as Shellburne, New Castle County, Delaware. The complaint charges that Ordinance 67-5, renumbered 68-36 upon passage, purporting to rezone plaintiff's land and enacted by City Council of New Castle County on May 27, 1968 is invalid on constitutional grounds. It further charges that the rezoning of plaintiff's land...

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