Mayor of Baltimore v. Brengle

This is an appeal from an order of the Baltimore City Court quashing the proceedings of the Commissioners of Opening Streets, acting as the Annex Commission of the City of Baltimore, instituted for the closing of Morris Avenue between Westwood Avenue and Eleventh Street. Three main questions seem to have been raised in the lower Court They were: 1st. Is Morris Avenue a public highway subject to the laws which regulate the opening and closing of streets? 2nd. Has the Annex Commission power to- close that avenue ? and 3rd. Is the proposed closing of the avenue for a public use? The lower Court…