Coleman duPont Road, Inc. v. Lasher

Seitz, Chancellor:

These are two actions seeking to have this court restrain the defendants from encroaching upon lands belonging to the plaintiff corporation or in the alternative to enter into a lease of said lands with the plaintiff corporation upon fair and just terms.

In 1911 the Delaware General Assembly passed a law authorizing the organization of “Boulevard Corporations”. See 26 Laws of Delaware, Chap. 189, Rev. Code of Del. 1935, Chap. 65, Art. 10. On October 16, 1911, Thomas Coleman duPont and others, pursuant to the stated Act, filed Articles of Association in the office of the…