Mayor of Baltimore v. Gittings

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City overruling a demurrer to a bill of complaint filed by the appellant, John S. Gittings, trustee, against the appellee, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore.

The bill alleges that the plaintiff was seized and possessed for the term of his natural life with remainder to his issue, of a farm known as “Ashburton,” containing three hundred and fifty acres of land, more or less, which, prior to the Act of 1888, Chapter 98, was situated in Baltimore County, but under said Act was brought within the limits of Baltimore City, and…