Lynch v. Town Council of Georgetown

The Chancellor :

The bill seeks a permanent, and the rule a preliminary, injunction restraining the removal of two shade trees that stand in front of the complainant’s office building on the north side of Market Street in the town of Georgetown.

Market Street is and for over one hundred years has been a street with a width from building line to building line of sixty feet and with a road bed for vehicular travel of thirty-six feet from curb line to curb line. The two trees in question now extend about eighteen inches beyond the curb line into the road bed. They are not mature trees. The bill…