Kramer v. Baltimore

As the owners of a lot of ground and building at the northeast corner of Mt. Royal Avenue and McMechen Street in the City of Baltimore, the appellants applied to the buildings engineer of the city for a permit to construct on the premises a filling station with six gasoline tanks and pumps. The application was refused, and a suit in equity for a mandatory injunction to compel the issuance of the desired permit having been dismissed on demurrer, this appeal has resulted.

The refusal of the buildings engineer to issue a permit to the appellants for the erection of the proposed filling station is…