Lord v. City of Wilmington

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor:

Plaintiffs in this case are citizens and taxpayers of New Castle County and State of Delaware and have brought this action to enjoin the diversion of park land to an alleged non-park use suing not only on their own behalf but also on behalf of other citizens and taxpayers of the County similarly situated. 1 Defendant is a municipal corporation and the owner of the tract of land here in issue, on part of which it proposes to construct a steel water tank and tower having an elevation of approximately one hundred feet and a capacity of five hundred thousand gallons of…