Gontrum v. Mayor of Baltimore

This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the amended bill of complaint filed by the appellants against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore. The relief prayed for in the bill was that an agreement dated February 19, 1931, executed by Thomas M. Gontrum, one of the appellants, be annulled and set aside and that the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore at once begin the removal of its sewerage pipes and drains from the right of way and easement for sewers over the land of the appellants granted by said agreement, or pay to the appellants such damages as would be fair compensation for the…