Gray v. Mayor & Council of Wilmington

Citations

• 10 Del. Ch. 39
• 83 A. 321
• 1912 Del. Ch. LEXIS 34

Syllabus

<p>The Court of Chancery will not restrain the mayor and council of a city from taking further action on a proposed ordinance providing for a sale of land owned by the city, though a recital in the ordinance of. the relinquishment of control over the land by the board of water commissioners, which was a jurisdictional fact, be untrue; an injunction being properly withheld until the last practicable moment, when it appears that the mayor and council will take final and illegal action.</p>