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Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery of Maryland 1846-1854
Volume 200, Volume 2, Page 78   View pdf image (33K)
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78 HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY.
that ancestor, can never be returned. The case, presented in
this aspect, appears to me to be utterly destitute of equity; and
if there were no other objections to the relief prayed by the
bill, and the jurisdiction of this court was undoubted, I should
refuse to grant it; and being of this opinion, without consider-
ing the other questions raised in the argument of the defendant's
solicitors, I shall pass a decree dismissing the bill.
I. D. JONES for Complainants.
WOOLFORD and CRISFIELD for Defendant.
THE TRUSTEES OF THE METHODIST
PROTESTANT CHURCH, &c.
vs. JULY TERM, 1847.
THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL
OF BALTIMORE.
[JURISDICTION.]
UPON a bill to enjoin the defendants from collecting a tax imposed by the Street
commissioner of the city of Baltimore, upon the property of the complainants,
for widening a street—the acts of Assembly and ordinances of the City having
given the right of appeal to all persons considering themselves thereby aggriev-
ed, from the decisions of the commissioners to Baltimore City Court, which
remedy the complainants failed to take—HELD—
That this court has no jurisdiction, and the injunction was dissolved.
——
THE CHANCELLOR :
The bill in this case was filed on the equity side of Baltimore
County Court, and subsequently transferred to this court, un-
der the provision of the act of assembly for that purpose.
It seeks to restrain, by injunction, the Mayor and City Coun-
cil of Baltimore and their agents,.from proceeding to collect a
tax and assessment, which had been imposed upon the property
of the complainants, as and for a benefit which, in the judgment
of the street commissioners of the city of Baltimore, had been
conferred upon their property by the widening of "Little Ais-

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