Hiss v. Mayor of Baltimore

This is a bill for an injunction to restrain the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore from levying and collecting taxes for municipal purposes for the year 1905, at a rate in excess of sixty cents per $100 of the assessed value thereof, on certain property situate in that part of Baltimore City formerly Baltimore County, which was annexed to the city, under the Act of 1888, ch. 98.

A demurrer to the bill was sustained and the bill dismissed by the Court below, upon the ground that the property in question was not landed property within the meaning of chap. 130 of the Acts of 1902, but was…