Mayor of Baltimore v. Fear
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the rulings of the Baltimore City Court on an appeal from the action of the Commissioners for Opening Streets in the matter of the opening of Myrtle avenue from Fulton avenue to Pulaski street.
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Appeal from the rulings of the Baltimore City Court on an appeal from the action of the Commissioners for Opening Streets in the matter of the opening of Myrtle avenue from Fulton avenue to Pulaski street. At the trial the appellee, Fear, proved by himself, that so far as Myrtle avenue extends through his property, he began to grade and pave the same sometime about 1891, when he undertook to develop his tract of land of about twenty acres, through which he cut the street; that he got the grade of the street, at the end nearest Fulton avenue, from the City Commissioner, in February, 1894, in…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
This case was tried before the Baltimore City Court on appeal from the finding of the Commissioners for Opening Streets in said city, and this appeal arises on the action of the lower Court in granting certain instructions of the appellee, and in refusing certain of those of the appellant. There is but one question in the record for us to consider, and that relates to the alleged dedication of that portion of Myrtle avenue (now Walbrook avenue), which extends from Fulton avenue to Pulaski street. The facts are few and simple. The appellee was the owner of a tract of land through which Myrtle…
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