Mayor of Baltimore v. Hook

Yellott,'J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellees, in their hill of complaint filed in the Court below, invoked th'e interposition of that Court, and asked for the issuance of a writ of injunction to inhibit the enforcement of the payment of assessments and taxes for the grading, paving and kerhing of a portion of Caroline street, extending from John street to Boundary avenue. In its decree the Circuit Court declared all these assessments and taxes, levied against the complainants, *373illegal and void, and the…