Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Waters
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeál from the Circuit Court of Baltimore County (Duncan, J.)
1Opinion of the CourtPearce, J.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company was chartered by ch. 123 of the Acts of Assembly in the year 1826, and by tlie fourteenth section of that Act the president and directors of.said company were “invested with all the rights and powers necessary to the construction and repair of a railroad from the city of Baltimore to some suitable point on the Ohio river, to be by them determined, not exceeding sixty-six feet wide, and with as many set of tracks as the said president and directors, or a majority of them may deem necessary; and in the same section it was enacted “that they, or a majority…
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