Mayor of Bladensburg, Inc. v. Berg, Trading as Berg Bros.

This is an appeal by the Town of Bladensburg (Town), a municipal corporation, from the judgment and order of the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County directing that a writ of mandamus issue to compel the mayor and council of said Town to grant unto the appellee a permit for the establishment and operation of a junk-yard.

For many years, a junk-yard had been conducted upon property, zoned Heavy Industrial and located within the corporate limits of the Town, which was owned by Samuel J. Berg and his wife (the Bergs). During 1956 and for sometime prior thereto, the Bergs had leased their said…