Poole v. Commissioners of Rehoboth
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Injunction Bill. The Rehoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church was mcorporated by special act of the Legislature of Delaware in 1873 and became the owner of a large tract of land along the Atlantic Ocean in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred, and the land was plotted and laid out in building lots. In the plot certain avenues, streets and highways were dedicated to the use of the public.
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Injunction Bill. The Rehoboth Beach Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church was mcorporated by special act of the Legislature of Delaware in 1873 and became the owner of a large tract of land along the Atlantic Ocean in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred, and the land was plotted and laid out in building lots. In the plot certain avenues, streets and highways were dedicated to the use of the public. Among the avenues so dedicated was one known as Surf Avenue, which extends along the ocean front and parallel thereto, and Baltimore Avenue, which leads into Surf Avenue at right angles…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:
The basis of the claim made by the complainant, Poole, is that there was a dedication to public uses, not only of Surf Avenue, but also the shore between that avenue and the Atlantic Ocean, “as a space that should be ever open and unobstructed to the view of the ocean by those persons living on and using said avenue.” This dedication, it is claimed, was made by the making and recording of a plot of its land by the Rehoboth Camp Meeting Association of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a corporation created in 1873, and then the owner of a large tract of land along the ocean, which…
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