Peck v. Baltimore County

This is an appeal in a condemnation suit filed by Baltimore County in connection with the widening and relocation of Bosley Avenue and the creation of a bypass of Towson, the County seat. The case was decided by the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Land, J.) upon motions for summary judgment wherein the County contended that the property in question, being part of the roadbed of Baltimore Avenue between Susquehanna Avenue and Towsontowne Boulevard, had a nominal value of $1.00 as a matter of law; and the heirs of one Washington Townsend, the appellants herein, argued that although the…