Maryland Tobacco Growers' Ass'n v. Maryland Tobacco Authority

This is an appeal from the Circuit Court for Howard County where Judge James Macgill, in an administrative appeal proceeding, sustained the refusal of the State Tobacco Authority, appellee, to grant the Maryland Tobacco Growers’ Association, appellant, an increase in its daily sales quota on the loose leaf tobacco market for *22the selling season 1970. This daily sales quota was purportedly devised by the Authority pursuant to powers delegated to it by the Legislature in 1947 under Article 48, sections 55-69, of the Code of Maryland (1957, 1971 Repl. Vol.). The first time the formula was used to…