Fitzgerald v. Somerset County Sanitary Commission

The appellant, Ruby F. Fitzgerald, continuing her fight to prevent the Somerset County Sanitary Commission from acquiring an easement over and under her land for a sewer line, contends in this appeal that the trial court erred (1) in its order of publication in shortening the usual time for pleading initially to the petition for condemnation, and (2) in overruling her contention the statute proceeded under is unconstitutional because (a) it allows an award to be paid to the clerk (which, it is claimed, is not payment or tender to the property owner as Art. Ill, Sec. 40, of the Maryland…