Court of Appeals of Maryland December 19, 1906 (Northern Central Railway Co. v. Canton Co.)

Burke, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

On the first day of October, 1873, a lease was made between the Canton Company of Baltimore, a body corporate, and the Northern Central Railway Company, by which several tracts of land, comprising in all about seventy acres were demised by the Canton Company to the Railroad Company for the term of ninety-nine years, upon the annual rent of $ 15,000,