Carey v. Jackson

The plaintiffs (appellants), Francis King Carey and Victorine K. Robqrtson, as citizens and taxpayers of the City of Baltimore, for themselves and any others who might join in the suit, filed their bill of complaint against Howard W. Jackson, Mayor of Baltimore, Walter L. Clark, Ralph F. Proctor, and William H. Lawrence, members of the City Service Commission of Baltimore, and R. Walter Graham, City Comptroller, wherein they charged the invalidity of so much of an ordinance of the Mayor and City Council as the Mayor assumed authorized him to appoint two persons not on the classified or civil…