Mayor of Baltimore v. Hooper

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge

(retired), Specially Assigned.

I

For over a hundred and twenty-five years it has been the law of Maryland that

municipal corporations and their officers having money or property in their hands to which other persons are entitled are not liable to the creditors of such persons on attachment or garnishment process unless made so by statute or charter.

City of Baltimore v. Comptroller, 292 Md. 293, 296, 439 A.2d 1095 (1982), quoting 17 E. McQuillin, Municipal Corporations § 49.86 at 386 (3d ed. 1968) (emphasis added). See 1982 revised vol., § 49.86 at 355. The…