Deakyne v. Lewes Anglers, Inc.

LEAHY, Senior District Judge.

An action in ejectment1 was brought by Ethel C. Deakyhe, a Pennsylvania resident, against Lewes Anglers, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Plaintiff avers the defendant corporation is in wrongful possession of her land and seeks to recover possession as well as mesne profits in the amount of $24,000. Plaintiff claims that in March 1960 she bought the property from Ernest and Anna Wingate Schoellner, who had purchased it in 1948 from Frederick P. Whitney, Trustee for Bessie Metcalf Wingate. Prior to that date, plaintiff avers the land was owned by the heirs of John…