Wolcott v. Doremus
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Information in the nature of an injunction bill to restrain the shooting at targets on the grounds,occupied by the DuPont. Trapshooting Club. The cause was heard on the information, answer, testimony “of witnesses produced before and heard orally by the Chancellor and exhibits. . The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Chancellor.
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The cause *is an information in the nature of a bill filed by the Attorney General on the relation of two citizens to perpetually enjoin the members of a trapshooting club from continuing a public nuisance. After answer filed an application for a preliminary injunction was heard on the information, answer, ex parte affidavits and exhibits. It having been proved that shot from guns. used in the trapshooting fell into the public road on which the premises of the club abutted, and that the safety of persons using the highway was seriously endangered thereby, an injunction was…
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