Callaway v. Mayor of Baltimore

DENNIS, J.—

'This bill is filed for the specific enforcement of a contract for the sale to the city of certain adjacent tracts of land for. the purpose of a new reservoir, made by the plaintiff in his own right and as agent for certain other parties. The city was authorized to make the purchase under the provisions of the “Ordinance of estimates for the year 1903,” passed on December 2, 1902, and the agreement of purchase was duly executed by the proper city authorities with the plaintiff.

On January 14, 1904, an ordinance declaring that “for various public reasons it is deemed expedient by the…