Galloway v. Shipley
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellants filed a bill against the appellee, praying that his proceedings as examiner in the matter of the opening, grading, condemning, and constructing Gorsuch avenue between certain designated points, so far as the same purport or claim to impose any tax or charge against the plaintiffs or their property, might be declared null and void, and for an injunction.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Baltimore City. The appellants filed a bill against the appellee, praying that his proceedings as examiner in the matter of the opening, grading, condemning, and constructing Gorsuch avenue between certain designated points, so far as the same purport or claim to impose any tax or charge against the plaintiffs or their property, might be declared null and void, and for an injunction. The Court below (Wrioht, J.,) passed a decree dismissing the bill, and the plaintiffs appealed. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Stone, J.,
delivered the ojoinion of the Court.
By the fourth section of the Act of 1876, chapter 399, relating to the extension of streets and avenues in Baltimore County, it is provided:
“That whenever it may be desirable to have any street or avenue, which may have been already laid off, ex-, tended beyond its present terminus, the owner or owners of a majority of front feet of ground bounding and fronting on any portion of said street or avenue as laid off, and including the line of the proposed extension, may make application to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County, in writing,…
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