Northern Central Railway Co. v. Hering
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Wickes, J.), dismissing the bill of complaint. The bill prayed. 1. For a construction of the Act of 1854, chapter 260, and the instruments executed thereunder. 2. For a declaration that the tender was in equity an extinguishment of the obligation. 3. For a mandatory injunction requiring the Comptroller and Treasurer to receive the sum so tendered. 4. For an injunction to prevent any attempted sale under the Act of…
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Wickes, J.), dismissing the bill of complaint. The bill prayed. 1. For a construction of the Act of 1854, chapter 260, and the instruments executed thereunder. 2. For a declaration that the tender was in equity an extinguishment of the obligation. 3. For a mandatory injunction requiring the Comptroller and Treasurer to receive the sum so tendered. 4. For an injunction to prevent any attempted sale under the Act of 1898. 5. For an injunction forbidding the defendants from making any attempt to collect any alleged instalments of the…
1Opinion of the CourtPage, J.
This' suit was instituted by the appellant against certain officials of the State of Maryland for the purpose of obtaining a decree declaring that by the true construction of the Act of 1854, chapter 260, a.nd of the instruments executed and delivered thereunder, the obligation of the appellant to pay to the .State $90,000 per annum, was and is extinguishable upon the payment by the appellant into the Treasury of the State of the sum of fifteen hundred thousand dollars, with the arrears, if any, of the annual sum ; also for an injunction requiring the appellees to receive said sum, &c. The…
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