Schwanebeck v. Smith

This is an application for specific performance of what is alleged to be a contract between the parties, plaintiffs and defendants in this case, for the partition or division of certain portions of the bed of Birckhead street, condemned and closed by the authority of the City of Baltimore, between Charles and Patapsco streets. It appears that each of the parties, complainants and defendants, had some interest in the soil, by previous lease or conveyances, in the bed of Birckhead street, between Charles and Patapsco streets; and there was an ordinance pending, or about to be introduced, in the…