Williams v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.

Nathalie Thomas Whiting devised the reversion in and to an improved lot of ground in Baltimore City unto the Safe Deposit & Trust Company of Baltimore under trusts which still continue. The ground rent was created by a lease dated May 4th, 1867, whereby the lot of ground and premises were demised for the term of ninety-nine years, renewable forever, and the annual ground rent of $480 issuing out of the lot was reserved, payable in equal semi-annual installments on the fourth days of every May and November. By the lease, the lessee, for himself, his personal representatives and assigns,…