Legal Opinion
MacKie v. Mayor of Elkton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided May 10, 1972No. [No. 306, September Term, 1971.]PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcWilliams, J.
Hammond, C. J., and Smith, J., dissent and Hammond, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Smith, J., concurred at page 423 infra.
The appellant (Mackie) owns and farms a number of acres in the northeast corner of Cecil County about a mile from the Mason and Dixon line. This “rolling and scenic” countryside is drained by Little Elk Creek and a number of its small but picturesque tributaries. For this very reason the town of Elkton, the county government, and the United States Department of Agriculture have in mind building, on Mackie’s land, a dam to impound the waters of Little Elk Creek.…
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