Legal Opinion
Dutton v. Tawes
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 12, 1961No. [No. 1, September Term, 1961 (Adv.).]PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
Appellants are Southern Maryland citizens and taxpayers who earn their livelihood there by fishing, crabbing and oystering in the Potomac River. On their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated who might desire to make themselves parties, they filed a bill in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City to enjoin the Governor from proclaiming Chapter 269 of the Acts of 1959, a compact with the State of Virginia relating to the Potomac River, to have been adopted by the people of Maryland as a law of the State in a referendum vote which had been taken at the election of November 8,…
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