City of Bowie v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

A David, City of Bowie, asserted supremacy of right to build a sewerage system for a portion of the city over a Goliath, the *613Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, which had announced its determination to construct the system. In the judicial struggle which resulted it was not Goliath but David who was felled. Judge Mathias concluded that the legislative intent revealed by the various pertinent statutes, read as a whole, was to make the Commission paramount in the field and that its decision to build the sewerage system rather than to permit Bowie to build it was within its power to make.

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