MacKie v. Mayor of Elkton

265 Md. 410 (1972)

290 A.2d 500

MACKIE ET AL.

v.

MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF ELKTON

[No. 306, September Term, 1971.]

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 10, 1972.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN,[*] SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.

Frank Thomas Howard, with whom was Wm. Wilson Bratton on the brief, for appellants.

O. Robert Lidums, with whom was Edward D.E. Rollins, Jr., on the brief, for appellee.

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…