Browne v. Mayor of Baltimore

The appellants as taxpayers contest the validity of an act of assembly and two ordinances, and of proceedings under them, looking to the building of a wide highway and viaduct in Baltimore City across the valley of Jones Falls, from St. Paul Street on the west to Forrest Street on the east. Following the line from west to east, it has been planned to build the way from St. Paul Street in the neighborhood of Mulberry and Franklin Streets, across the public gardens and ways known as' Preston Gardens, to Courtland Street, thence across Courtland Street and over the site of private buildings to…