Mayor of Baltimore v. Baltimore, Catonsville & Ellicott's Mills Passenger Railroad

The defendant company operates a local passenger railway, running for a part of its length (about two miles) through the annexed district, or within the present territorial limits of the city as extended, and for the rest of its length (about three and one-half *546miles) westwardly beyond those limits, and for the whole of its length on its own right of way, acquired and maintained at its own expense. This right of way it has purchased from the turnpike company upon whose roadbed its tracks are laid, under legislative authority. No street franchise or concession of any kind whatever has been…