Deakyne v. Commissioners of Lewes

OPINION

STEEL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, the holder of the record title to real estate in Lewes, Delaware, includ*426ing the bed of a roadway traversing it, brought an action against the defendants, the Commissioners of Lewes, the Board of Public Works, and its General Manager Coulter, for an alleged trespass occasioned by the building of a sewer line across the land within the area of the roadway.1 The jury returned a verdict in favor of plaintiff assessing defendants with ordinary damages in the amount of $16,000 and punitive damages in the amount of $600. Judgment for $16,600 has been entered…