Consolidated Fisheries Co. v. Marshall

Layton, Chief Justice:

The defendant corporation holds under a lease from Commissioners of Lewes, a municipal corporation, certain public, or vacant lands adjacent to the corporate limits of the Town of Lewes at a yearly rental of .$1312.00, on which lands, during the year 1942, were certain buildings and improvements. Under the authority of Chapter 170, Volume 43, Delaware Laws, entitled “An Act to Re-Incorporate The Town Of Lewes,” the buildings and improvements were assessed for taxation in the sum of $20,000.00, and a tax of one percent was levied thereon, becoming due and payable on April…