Mayor of Cumberland v. Powles

The City of Cumberland appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for Allegany County requiring it to furnish water in the suburb of LaVale beyond the City limits to a householder, many of whose neighbors it has long served. The Maryland law on the subject is fully set out in Bair v. City of Westminster, 243 Md. 494, and Judge Getty found on the facts before him, permissibly and justifiably we think, that the controlling law required the City not to discriminate against the appellee. We adopt Judge Getty’s opinion as that of this Court in this appeal, as follows:

“This is a Petition for a Writ…