Qdweyler v. Gibson

The appellees on this record, as the heirs at law of Thomas King Carroll and wife, are the owners in fee of the land sued for in this case. It comprises the-bed of what was formerly Constitution street in the City of Baltimore. This street was dedicated to public use by Mr. Carroll and his wife in 1831 by certain grants of lots abutting thereon, but by the terms of the conveyances the title to the street itself remained in the grantors, and that title is now vested in the appellees.

The State, finding it necessary to enlarge and extend the Maryland Penitentiary, provided, by the Act of 1900,…