Case Name: ANTON TEXTOR VS. CHARLES SHIPLEY, ET AL.
Court: Baltimore City Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Decision Date: 1891-11-02
Citations: 1 Balt. C. Rep. 231
Docket Number: 
Parties: ANTON TEXTOR. VS. CHARLES SHIPLEY, ET AL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Baltimore city reports, comprising opinions of the various courts of Baltimore city since 1888...
Volume: 1
Pages: 231–231

Head Matter:
CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY
Filed November 2, 1891.
ANTON TEXTOR. VS. CHARLES SHIPLEY, ET AL.
G. Dodd McFarland for plaintiff.
Thomas G. Rayes, T. R. Glendinen and William A. Hammond for defendants.

Opinion:
DENNIS, J.
It appears by the bill that the Mayor and City Council undertook to sell in fee the property in question and made a deed therefore to the defendant, Shipley.
The latter thereupon executed a lease to the defendant, Elizabeth Black, under which lease the said defendant is now in possession. The bill is in the nature of a bill of quia timet and seeks to have the deed from the Mayor and City Council to Shipley and the lease from Shipley to said Black set aside as illegal and void. It is well settled that those only who have a clear legal and equitable title to land, connected with possession, have any right to claim the interference of a court of equity to give them peace or dissipate a cloud on title. Polk vs. Pendleton, 31 Md. 124; Carter, &e., vs. Noolfork, 71 Md. 292. In this case the plaintiff is not in possession and the plain object of the suit is to try the question of right and obtain possession from the defendants, claiming under an adverse title. The remedy is at law. The demurrer to the bill will be sustained.