Sorensen v. J. H. Lawrence Co.

This suit was brought in the Circuit Court No. 2 of Baltimore City by Margaret J. Sorensen, owner of the lot improved by a two-story brick building at 26001/2 Huntingdon Avenue and by the tenants of the property to obtain a declaratory decree defining the rights of complainants and the adjoining property owner, J. H. Lawrence Company, defendant, under a party wall agreement, and an injunction to restrain defendant from increasing the height of the party wall and to require defendant to restore it to its original condition.

The bill of complaint, which was filed in July, 1949, alleged: (1) that…