Wilmington Trust Co. v. Barron

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• holding that declaratory judgment was an inappropriate remedy because a judicial officer has no cognizable interest in seeking to have his legal interpretations sustained
• holding that where for many years the Justice of Peace courts incorrectly interpreted a statute providing exemptions from garnishment actions, the statute “does not become justified by mere passage of time”

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