Bowie v. Board of County Commissioners

Appellants, aROUSEd 1 by the impending invasion of their heath by General Electric Company (GE), have adopted, as a means of resistance, a kind of scorched earth policy with Fabian overtones. Aware of GE’s unwillingness to exercise its option to buy the 1,087 acre tract (the property) upon which it proposes to build a $250,000,000 plant unless and until the zoning is changed to ID (Industrial Development District), appellants fought the application for reclassification both before the County Commissioners and in the Circuit Court for Howard County. They lost both of those battles; here they…