Town of Seaford v. Eastern Shore Public Service Co.

The Chancellor:

The act creating the complainant as a municipal corporation (29 Delaware Laws, c. 153) gives the complainant jurisdiction of a rather comprehensive nature over the streets, etc., of Seaford. Section 16 vests in the councilmen “the superintendence and oversight of all the roads and streets” of the town. Section 19, inter alla, particularizes in more detail the authority of the council over the streets, etc., as follows: to ascertain and establish their boundaries, to regulate and keep them in repair, *8to prescribe the manner in which corporations or natural persons shall exercise…