Perellis v. Mayor of Baltimore

This appeal is from a decree of the Circuit Court of Baltimore City dismissing two bills of complaint which challenged, on constitutional grounds, the validity of an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore closing a portion of Benefit Street, a public highway of Baltimore City.

Benefit Street is a street or alley, 20 feet wide, running east and west between and parallel to Bank Street on the north, and Eastern Avenue on the south. The only entrance to Benefit Street is from Eaton Street on the west, running thence to a point about 250 feet from Eaton Street, where it ends abruptly…