Gibbs v. Gale
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Equity Side of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel county. This appeal was taken from an order of the court, below, (Thomas Donaldson, Special Judge,) dissolving an injunction which had been granted upon a bill filed by the appellant, on the 25th of July 1851. The facts of the case, so far as necessary to elucidate the opinion of this court, are sufficiently stated therein.
1Opinion of the CourtLe Grand, C. J.
The bill in this case stales, substantially, that a certain George B. Stewart being seized in fee of a large tract of land lying on West River, leased five acres of it to the firm of Crouch and Randall, to be used as a landing for steamboats and *84other vessels, and for the transaction of commercial business; .that besides paying a large rent, the lessees covenanted therein to make improvements, and that the lessor covenanted on his part, during the continuance of the lease, not to rent any other landing on his tract of land as a steamboat landing; that the lease was to continue five years,…
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