Zeiler v. Central Railway Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.), dismissing the bill of complaint in this case.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Harlan, C. J.), dismissing the bill of complaint in this case. The bill alleged that the plaintiff was the owner of property on Wolfe street, in said city, upon which street the Central Railway Company, one of the defendants, intended to lay its tracks under the authority of an alleged ordinance of the Mayor and City Council; that the said ordinance had not been lawfully enacted and was void; that the plaintiff was opposed to the construction of an overhead electric wire in front of his property, etc. The prayer of the bill was (i),…
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
The appellant contends that the ordinance mentioned in the bill of complaint is null and void, because,. 1st. It did not pass the First Branch in conformity with law, because it was put upon its passage before it had been read twice upon two separate days, as required by the ninth joint standing rule then in full force and unsuspended ; and 2nd, it did not pass either branch legally, because the question as to authorizing the Central Railway Company to extend its railway “ over almost all of the streets named in the ordinance ’ ’ had been indefinitely postponed in the Second Branch at the…
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