Rundle v. Mayor of Baltimore
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, dismissing an appeal from the award of the Commissioners for Opening Streets, in the matter of the opening of West street.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore. This is an appeal from the judgment of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, dismissing an appeal from the award of the Commissioners for Opening Streets, in the matter of the opening of West street. The Ordinance for condemning and opening West street was approved 25th July, 1857. It was passed by the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, in pursuance of the powers granted by the Acts of Assembly of 1838, ch. 226, 1845, ch. 31, and 1856, ch. 164, and in accordance with the provisions of the Ordinance approved 9th of March, 1841, and which will be found…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
The appeal in this case is taken from a decision of the Criminal Court of Baltimore, dismissing an appeal prosecuted to that Court, from the determination of the Commissioners for the Opening of Streets, and the first question for this Court to decide is, whether this appeal lies? We think it does not. If no appellate power whatever had been conferred On the Criminal Court ‘of Baltimore in such eases, its judgments unwarrantably pronounced in assertion of jurisdiction over the subject, might by appeal be reviewed and reversed in this Court. But the right of appeal was given to the Criminal…
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