Jackson v. Cosby

This appeal is from an order of the Circuit Court for Dorchester County dismissing a bill of complaint filed by Irving B. Jackson, Mayor of Cambridge, seeking an injunction to restrain John H. Cosby from acting as City Engineer and W. Laird Henry, Jr., from acting as Attorney for the City of Cambridge, and to restrain Carroll L. Dail, Treasurer and Collector, from paying them any salary.

For many years the municipal powers of the City of Cambridge were vested in five Commissioners, who were authorized to select one of their own number to serve as Mayor. Code P. L. L., art. 10, secs. 47, 57. In…