Lord Calvert Theatre, Inc. v. Mayor of Baltimore

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the defendant entered after the court sustained a demurrer to an amended declaration without leave to amend. The action, in two counts, filed October 34, 3953, sought to recover from the City damages caused by unreasonable delay in widening Washington Boulevard in Baltimore City, along the front of the appellant’s property.

The allegations show that in July, 1928, Ordinance 514 was adopted whereby the Commissioners for Opening Streets were “authorized and directed to condemn, open, widen and grade Washington Boulevard from its present width of sixty…