Knight v. Mitchell

In this case the owner of a lot of ground next to a corner lot in Baltimore City sought an injunction to prevent the owner of the corner lot from building over a yard, up within two feet of the inside line of his property, as that would darken windows of the complainant’s house which have long overlooked the yard and received light across it. The two lots were formerly owned by a single owner, and the claim to continued enjoyment of the light for the inside lot is based upon the'principle applied by this court in Cherry v. Stein, 11 Md. 1, Janes v. Jenkins, 34 Md. 1, and other cases, that if…