Weidman v. Consolidated Gas Electric Light & Power Co.

The Public Service Building Company, a corporation, is the owner and occupier in part of the large office building-on the southeast corner of Lexington and Liberty Streets in the City of Baltimore, and one of its tenants is the Consolidated Gas & Electric Company, which had a store on the first floor. The front of the structure on Lexington Street, which runs east and west, is on the building line, except the entrance, which is an open recess extending back from the front of the building and public sidewalk, with its sides converging to a doorway some distance south of the building-line,…