Green v. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission

The fracas that resulted from Harry Green’s attempt to prevent the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from laying a water line along the roadway in front of his home in Damascus, Montgomery County, Maryland should not serve as an example of how to combat the encroachments of state and county government into the far reaches of suburbia. Had this been a less volatile situation we might only have been faced with the relatively uncomplicated question of the widening of the public’s right-of-way over a roadbed by adverse possession; instead we must review this question in the context of a…