Legal Opinion
Finan v. M. C.C. of Cumberland
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 24, 1928No. [No. 65, January Term, 1928.]PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBond, C. J.
This case presents a question of the validity of an issue of bonds by the Mayor and City Council of Cumberland under the authority of an Act of Assembly of 1927, chapter dll. The act directs specifically that $100,000 of the proceeds of sale of the bonds be advanced to the Allegany Hospital of Sisters of Charity, a private eleemosynary corporation which conducts a general hospital in the city, and it is questioned whether power can validly be given to the city to appropriate or advance public funds to such a corporation for its purposes. A total issue of $500,000 is provided for in the act,…
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