Fowler v. Board of County Commissioners

The appellants, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fowler and their eleven children, sued the individuals comprising the Board of County Commissioners of Prince George’s County, as individuals and as a Board, alleging failure to do their duty and exercise their powers to abate nuisances and prevent the creation of additional nuisances in the matter of “faulty septic tank installations in the subdivision of Seabrook Acres during the years from and about 1951 to 1959.” The declaration further alleged that the defendants, as individuals, did not physically bring about the abatement of the alleged nuisances.…