Legal Opinion
Free State Realty Co. v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 2, 1977No. [No. 71, September Term, 1976.]PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
We shall here reject the contentions of Free State Realty Company, Inc. (Free State), that appellee, Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the City), improperly or unlawfully exercised its “quick take” powers of eminent domain. Thus, we shall affirm the decision of the Court of Special Appeals in Free State Realty v. City of Balto., 32 Md. App. 11, 359 A. 2d 94 (1976).
Stripped of their excess verbiage, the contentions of Free State may be summarized as: (1) the City was without authority to acquire the property in question; (2) a corollary or subsidiary portion of the argument on the previous…
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