County Commissioners v. Commissioners of Laurel

This appeal presents the question, whether a mandamus granted by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County, upon the application of the Commissioners of Laurel against the County Commissioners of Prince George’s County, was correctly granted. The nineteenth section of the act of 1870, ch. 260, incorporating the Town of Laurel, is as follows: “Section 19, and be it enacted, that so much of the labor or money, by the present, or any future road law levied or taxed upon the owners of property or residents within the corporate limits of said corporation, shall be turned over to said…