First Federated Commodity Trust Corp. v. Commissioner of Securities

First Federated Commodity Trust Corporation and other individual appellants 1 are here seeking the reversal of an order signed by Judge Kenneth C. Proctor, sitting in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, which dismissed their motion to vacate three earlier decrees entered by that court in this equity case. As a preliminary matter, the appellee, the Commissioner of Securities for the State of Maryland, filed a motion in this Court to dismiss the appeal. Because at the hearing held on this motion the merits of the controversy were also briefed and discussed, we shall, at this time, without…