Townsend, Grace & Co. v. Epstein
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court Number 2, of Baltimore City (Stockbridge, J.), dismissing the bill of complaint. main “ a public highway for all purposes whatever,” the abutting owner takes something more than the easements of passage, ingress and egress.
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court Number 2, of Baltimore City (Stockbridge, J.), dismissing the bill of complaint. main “ a public highway for all purposes whatever,” the abutting owner takes something more than the easements of passage, ingress and egress. If his neighbors on each side can acquire the opposite properties, and shut him in by superstructures similar to the appellee’s then, as° to such abutting owner the street has ceased to be a street and is no longer “ open.” Independent of the ordinance, the appellee can have no higher rights than Howard, and he, having sold a lot…
1Opinion of the CourtJones, J.
This case presents questions of more than usual interest and importance, but we think principles enunciated in comparatively recent decisions of this Court must so far control its decision as to render the solution of these questions free from difficulty. The facts giving rise to this litigation are as follows. The appellants (who were plaintiffs below) are the owners in fee of a lot of ground fronting about forty-nine feet on the south side of Fayette street in the city of Baltimore,- and running southerly, with uneven width, back to and abutting about sixty-eight feet on a small street…
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- Field v. BarlingIllinois Supreme Court · 1894
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- Garitee v. Mayor of BaltimoreCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1880
- Cherry v. SteinCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1858
- Garrett v. Lake Roland Elevated Railway Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1894
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