Bickel v. Nice

A bill in. equity, filed by a taxpayer of Baltimore City and of the State, seeks an injunction against the present issue of bonds of the State by the Board of Public Works, finder the Acts of 1937, chapter 368, on the alternative grounds that the statute, is unconstitutional, or, if not, cannot take effect as a law and authorize the issue of the bonds unless and until it is approved at the next general election in 1938, because a petition for a refer endum has been filed in accordance with article 16 of the Constitution of the State. The court below came to the conclusion that the act was…