Kolb v. Swann
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellee, the owner of a leasehold lot of ground and improvements on the north side of Preston street in the City of Baltimore, sold the same to the áppellant. The title having been objected to, questions -involving its validity were presented by a-special case stated. The Court (Dennis, J.) upheld the title, and from the pro forma decree requiring the purchaser to comply with the terms of sale, he appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
In the case of Trimble vs. The African Methodist Bethel Church of Baltimore City, decided by this Court at the January Term, 1887, the question, and indeed the only question involved, was the title of that ehurch to a lot of' about two acres of land sold to it by Robert Oliver for a. grave yard. The land was purchased in 1820, and used as a burying ground for some sixty years or more, and until the City of Baltimore, having opened streets through-the lot, it could no longer be used for that purpose. The church then proceeded to divide this land into small lots- and sell them for building…
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