Bowers v. Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

This is the third of a series of appeals arising out of the grant of an easement by Mary Ann Burnham to the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (the company) 1 for the erection, operation and maintenance of a power transmission line across a tract of land in Baltimore County, now owned by the descendents of the grantor (the Burnhams) and the heirs of Priscilla Lee (the Lees) as tenants in common, Priscilla Lee not having joined in the grant.

On the first appeal (Burnham v. Balto. Gas & Electric Co., 217 Md. 507, 144 A. 2d 80), an ejectment proceeding, we held that the Burnhams were bound by the…