Stewart v. Mayor of Baltimore

The appellee, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, filed a petition for condemnation of 6.93 acres of land owned by the appellant, Eleanor Pinkerton Stewart, Trustee for her father and stepmother. The necessity of taking was stipulated and the issue of just compensation was submitted to the jury which returned an inquisition for $50,000 on which the final judgment was based and from which this appeal was taken.

The property is roughly semicircular in shape bounded immediately on the north by Winterbourne Road, a public street, and on the south, east and west by Gwynns Falls Park property.…