Mayor of Baltimore v. Fairfield Improvement Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Dennis, J.), by which it was adjudged that “ it appearing to the Court that the defendants have abandoned as a hospital or pest-house the property spoken of in the proceedings and known as the old “ Quarantine Hospital,” and that, consequently, neither the (Mayor nor the Commissioners of Health has the power to send to said abandoned property the leper woman, Mary Sansone, named in the proceedings, to be there…
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Appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City (Dennis, J.), by which it was adjudged that “ it appearing to the Court that the defendants have abandoned as a hospital or pest-house the property spoken of in the proceedings and known as the old “ Quarantine Hospital,” and that, consequently, neither the (Mayor nor the Commissioners of Health has the power to send to said abandoned property the leper woman, Mary Sansone, named in the proceedings, to be there received and kept by Mr. and Mrs. Hemstetter under the agreement stated in the testimony; and it further appearing to the…
1Opinion of the CourtMcSherry, C. J.
This appeal was taken from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. That decree enjoined the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore from placing and keeping on a twenty-acre tract of land owned by the city an unfortunate woman afflicted with leprosy. This land adjoins property belonging to the Fairfield Improvement Company of Baltimore ; and the property of the company is divided into building lots. Many lots have been sold and quite a number of houses have been built in the vicinity of the city’s land. This twenty-acre tract was acquired by the city perhaps half a century ago. It is…
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