Conway v. Board of County Commissioners

In 1952 Benjamin Conway owned in fee a piece of property in the Vansville District of Prince George’s County, on which he and his wife lived. By agreement with Conway, certain of his neighbors petitioned the Board of County Commissioners under Code (1951), Art. 25, § 124 (now Code (1966 Repl. VoL), Art. 25, § 135), to take possession “of the road beginning 300 feet east of the Muirkirk Bridge on Muirkirk Road and running to the Old Baltimore Pike * * *” (part of the way, as a ten-foot wide dirt “cowpath,” ran along one side of the Conway property), as shown by an advertisement in the Prince…