Hill v. Bertrand

Marvel, Vice Chancellor:

Plaintiffs in September 1958 completed the purchase of a plot of ground in Lewes having an area of some twenty-five thousand square feet at the rear of lands owned by *149one Gordon Counselman. The Counselman lot and that of the defendant, Leota Bertrand, which adjoins the Counselman lot on the northeast and plaintiffs’ lot on the northwest, front on Pilottown Road. Plaintiffs’ lot since 1948 has been used by them as a vegetable garden worked by Mr. Hill.

Plaintiffs allege in their complaint that defendants, commencing in October 1958, have committed daily acts of trespass…