Textor v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

The appellant is the owner of a lot on the south-east corner of the intersection of Henrietta street and Ohio Avenue, in Baltimore City, where he conducts a lumber business, and, the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. Company, whose tracks lie along Ohio Avenue, having obtained permission under a resolution of the Mayor and City Council to erect at said crossing safety railway gates, he applied for an injunction to prevent their erection, on the ground that, when open, they would project over the pavement in front of his office door about three feet, and when down, about five feet, and besides, close the…