Mayor of Baltimore v. Little Sisters of the Poor

The bill of complaint in this case was filed by the appellee, a body corporate, praying for an injunction restraining the appellants from proceeding to collect an assessment upon the appellee's property, of benefits for the opening of McKim street from Hager street to Hoffman street. The facts are not disputed, and the appeal is from a pro forma decree granting the injunction.

The ground upon which the payment of the assessment is resisted, is that the Ordinance providing for the opening of McKim street is invalid, for the want of a sufficient preliminary public notice of the application for…