Bugg v. Maryland Transportation Authority

Since 1960, Pink Bugg and Elvina Bugg have been involved in a controversy over 12.5 acres of land condemned by the erstwhile State Roads Commission and upon which part of the John F. Kennedy Expressway is now situated.

The Court of Appeals, in Bugg v. State Roads Comm’n, 250 Md. 459, 243 A. 2d 511 (1968), opined, “This case marks the end of a long trail which Mr. and Mrs. Bugg have travelled for some eight years.” 250 Md. at 460. The seeming tolling of the knell for the “Bugg-State Roads” controversy was, in the words of the late Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), “greatly exaggerated.” 1

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