South Baltimore Co. v. Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad

Bora», C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

These appeals are from an order overruling' demurrers to the railroad company’s hill for an injunction against the laying of water mains over a bridge which crosses the railroad. The facts averred in the hill were, substantially, these:

In 1906 the railroad company, then under the name of The Baltimore Terminal Company, acquired, for a.- section of its road bed, a strip through a tract south of Baltimore City, and in Baltimore County, owned by the South Baltimore Company. The tract was a large, undeveloped area in the country, but streets bad…