Steuart v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant, praying for an injunction to restrain the city authorities from further proceedings under ordinance No. 58, approved June 8th 1853, for the opening, grading and paving of Baltimore street, from the east side of Fulton street to the city limits.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Baltimore city. The bill in this case was filed by the appellant, praying for an injunction to restrain the city authorities from further proceedings under ordinance No. 58, approved June 8th 1853, for the opening, grading and paving of Baltimore street, from the east side of Fulton street to the city limits. It alleges, in substance, that this ordinance was inoperative and invalid, because, in attempting to open said street in a continuous line, it passes through and conflicts with a square lying on the grounds of the complainant, laid out by the…
1Opinion of the CourtEccleston, J.
'The 12th section of the act of 1817, ch. 148, appointed certain commissioners, with authority to have surveyed and laid off, within the limits of the city of Baltimore, all such *509streets, lanes and alleys, as they should deem proper and convenient, and to cause the same to be marked with so many and such durable marks as they should think necessary, to return plots with such survey and location, with proper explanations, to the register of the city.
The 13th section enacts: “That the said commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized, to contract for and lay out such and so many parcels of…
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