Legal Opinion
Mayor of Baltimore v. Smulyan
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 12, 1979No. 509, September Term, 1978PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilner, J.
This is a condemnation case. It involves property in downtown Baltimore that is now part of the front lawn of the new Federal Courthouse, and, until Baltimore City condemned it in December, 1972, belonged to Harold Smulyan.
The real issue in the case, of course, is how much Mr. Smulyan should be paid for his property: what was its fair market value on December 4, 1972? The City’s appraisers testified that the fair market value on that date was between $400,000 and $420,000 — one said $400,000, the other said $420,000. Mr. Smulyan’s experts, not unexpectedly, thought the property was worth…
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