Block v. Mayor of Baltimore

On or about July 27th, 1921, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, hereinafter referred to as the city, contracted with the Sanitary Reduction Company, a corporation, for the disposal, by the Arnold Egerton system of reduction, of all 'garbage produced in Baltimore City, which, under the contract, the city agreed to deliver on scows at the redaction company’s plant at Spit Point on Bodkin Creek in.Anne Arundel County.

After the execution of that contract and until this suit, the city transported its.garbage on scows to the reduction company’s plant, where it was converted by that company…