Mayor of Baltimore v. Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.

This suit was brought in the Baltimore City Court, by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore1, a municipal corporation, ag’ainst the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone. Gompany of Baltimore City, a Maryland corporation, to recover, under the provisions of an Ordinance Ho. 86 of Baltimore City, approved April 20th, 1893, from the telephone company, a license fee of two dollars on each telephone pole of the company maintained by it-, for the years 1919 and 1920, in and upon certain streets, lanes, and alleys, of Baltimore City, annexed thereto by chapter 82 of the Acts, of 1918, known as the…