Plaenker v. Smith

The appellant is the owner of the leasehold estate in three lots of ground on Biddle street in Baltimore City each of which is subject to an annual rent of forty-two dollars. The three rents were reserved by a single lease for ninety-nine years made on the 29th of December, 1891. The rents therefore come within the operation of Art. 21, sec. 85 of the Code, which provides that “All rents reserved by leases or-sub-leases of land made in this State after April 5th, 1888,-for a longer period than fifteen years shall be redeemable at any time after the expiration of ten years from the date of…