Mayor of Baltimore v. Landay

In 1941 Albert Landay and Cele Landay, his wife, the appellees, bought some fifteen acres of low land south of Pulaski Highway running from North Point Road to Herring Run. Over the years, they filled much of the land and caused it to be improved by a number of buildings which they rented to trucking firms and for other commercial uses at substantial rentals. From time to time during these years Herring Run overflowed causing damages to land and buildings of the Landays (resulting from decreased rentals and clean-up and repair expenses) estimated by them to be some $300,000. In 1958 they…