Methodist Protestant Church v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
" Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 28th April, 1847, the appellants, the trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church, East Baltimore Station, filed their bill in the equity side of Baltimore County Court, in which they allege that in their corporate capacity, they are the owners of a certain lot of ground situated on the corner of Pitt and, Jlisquith streets, in the city of Baltimore, on which is erected a building regularly used as a place of public worship, by the…
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" Appeal from the Court of Chancery. On the 28th April, 1847, the appellants, the trustees of the Methodist Protestant Church, East Baltimore Station, filed their bill in the equity side of Baltimore County Court, in which they allege that in their corporate capacity, they are the owners of a certain lot of ground situated on the corner of Pitt and, Jlisquith streets, in the city of Baltimore, on which is erected a building regularly used as a place of public worship, by the religious society embodied under the said corporate name. That this lot and building was so owmed and occupied, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtDorsey, C. J.
Various grounds have been assigned by the complainant, why the injunction issued in this case, should not have been dissolved. And first, it is insisted, that the ordinance, of the 20th April, 1846, No. 49, for the opening of Msquith street, is invalid, because it is not apparent on its face, whether it was passed in execution of the powers delegated to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, by the act of 1817, ch. 148, or by the act of 1838, ch. 226. It is not essential to the validity of an ordinance, executing powers conferred by the legislature, that it should state, or indicate, the…
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