Property Owner Hits T-Mobile With Trespass Complaint in Baltimore

Real estate owner 1411 Division Street filed suit Tuesday to "recover" for T-Mobile’s “unlawful, forcible entry” onto its commercial property in Baltimore to service its telecom equipment, according to a trespass complaint (docket 1:22-cv-02690) in the U.S. District Court for Northern Maryland. The owner has been in the process of developing the property for affordable housing, it said. T-Mobile has a lease agreement with a third party, which itself has an easement agreement with the owner, that permits T-Mobile access to the telecom equipment on the property, it said. “But this easement agreement -- and necessarily, any lease with T-Mobile -- does not permit T-Mobile to occupy the property with trucks, workers, and a crane,” it said. “Nor does it permit T-Mobile to forcibly enter the property for the purpose of this unlawful occupation,” it said. “Yet that is exactly what T-Mobile did,” causing the owner “significant harm” by preventing it from fully developing its property, it said. The owner seeks unspecified money damages, plus a declaratory judgment that T-Mobile is not permitted to place its cranes, workers or vehicles on the property. T-Mobile didn’t comment Wednesday.