Mayor of Annapolis v. West Annapolis Fire & Improvement Co.

Only the most naive city dweller would find credible a rumor that a company of his city’s fire department proposed to sell its firehouse and move its trucks and equipment to a new firehouse which it planned to build somewhere in the county. Yet this is precisely what has happened in Annapolis, and neither the Mayor and Al dermen of the City of Annapolis (the City) nor Mary M. Proskey, together with a group of nine of her neighbors and two neighborhood associations (referred to collectively as the Residents), all appellants here, have been able to stop the contemplated hegira. As is so…