D. C. Transit Systems, Inc. v. State Roads Commission

After instituting condemnation proceedings in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County against certain land then alleged to be owned by D. C. Transit Systems, Inc. (the Transit Company), appellant, the State Roads Commission (the Commission), filed an amended petition claiming that the Transit Company owned only an easement and naming as additional parties defendant the heirs of the original grantors of the instruments it claimed to have granted the easement. It then filed in the condemnation proceeding a motion for declaratory judgment and other relief. The trial judge (Loveless, J.)…