Hazlehurst v. Mayor of Baltimore

This bill prays for an injunction to restrain the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and the City Collector from proceeding to collect certain benefits and assessments imposed upon the property of the complainants, for the widening of Light Street under City Ordinance No. 7, of 1869. The first section of that Ordinance, authorizes and directs the Street Commissioners “to condemn and widen all that part of Light Street, between Pratt and Lee Streets; the said widening to he made twenty feet, eastwardly, from the eastern side of said street.” According to our reading of the bill and…