Smyrna times., 1905-12-06
.REALESTATE DEAL OUTCOME
OF WOODLAND BEACH CASES
WILLIAMA. STOKESBURY, THE PROSECUTOR
OF SUNDAY CASES BUYS DIsPUTEDLAND.
Buys of John 7. Dyer of NorrIston, Pa. Owner
of the old Bombay Hook Railroad, Seven
and Three Quarters Acres of Land.

and Three Quarters Acres of Land.
An interesting real estate deal grow
ing out of the famous Woodland Beach
cases last summer, took place the past
week when William Stokesbury the
prosecutor of the cases, purchased of
John L. Dyer NorrIstown, P a., for
$4,000, u acres of land on which Mr..
Stokesbury has his cottage and boat
houses. The land directly faces the
Delaware Bay and was formerly the
site of the old Bombay Hook Railroad
which terminated at that point. Ever
since the railroad was abandoned the
land In question has been in dispute.
Stokesbury rented the property from
Mr.. Dyer and built his cottage and
lighthouses there. The owners of
Woodland Beach, contending that Mr..
Stokesbury was on their property,
notified him to vacate. The latter
however claimed that the Woodland
Beach owners had no jurisdiction over
the land and refused to leave. A law
suit grew out of this contention which
had been pending for some time. Dur
| ing the interim the Woodland Beach
cases kept things stirred up pretty
lively. William Stokesbury, pro-
secutor, figured in seventy or more
different ases against James r. Mott
and his concessionaries for doing
worldly labor on the sabbath in viola
tion of the sold Sunday blue law
These cases it will be remembered,
were thrown out at the recent session
of the Superior Court on technicality.
Last week Mr.. Stokesbury purchased
from Mr.. Walter o. Hoffecker agent oi
Mr.. John L. Dyer, owner of the old
Bombay Hook Railroad, the piece of
land comprising u acres, which he
(Stokesbury) had occupied for mum
Der of years.
Another phase of the Woodland
Beach affair took place at Dover yes.
terday when the Levy Court of Ken
county met for its December session.
Constables, magistrate and even de
PENDANTS confronted the Levy Cour
all with bills on the county for th,
costs of the raiding and arresting oi
Woodland Beach concessionaries las
summer for Sunday running. First
r. l.. Cummins the committing magis
trate, and Constable w. H. Boyer
who made all the farm wagon aud hacl
raids against the amusement proprIe
tors came into court with bills of vary
ing amounts, covering their costs, bu
there was a genuine shock awaiting
the court when Proprietor Mott an,
Attorney H. g. Eastburn put in a lit
tie bill for $505.75, the amount it ha(
cost them to keep out of Jail tn
amusement managers. Constabl
Boyer's bill of 5000 looked easy besid
this demand for the repayment of
defendant what it cost him to appes
judgments against him from a count,
magistrate. Attorneys Higgins an
q Eastburn, for the Woodland Beac
8 proprietors, now threaten a maj
r damus proceeding in the Superio
+, Court, while Constable Boyer has re
f tanned Lawyer William L. Goodin
: and associate to represent him and th
s magistrate has Lawyer Charles FL. LII
: Fevre. Lawyers about the state capi
n tai, however, claim that no suit ca
: be brought against the Levy Court
j and even if each of the Levy Cour
d men were brought into Superior Cou
l. on mandamus proceedings, they coul
+ go back and legislate as they felt s
It disposed.