ANNAPOLIS v. W. ANNA. FIRE & IMP. CO.

[No. 258, September Term, 1971.]

264 Md. 729 (1972)

288 A.2d 151

MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF ANNAPOLIS ET AL. v. WEST ANNAPOLIS FIRE AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene M. Lerner, City Attorney, for Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, one of appellants. Nicholas J. Fotos for Mary W. Proskey et al., other appellants.

Frank R. Weathersbee and Frank B. Walsh, Jr., for the West Annapolis Fire and Improvement Company, part of appellees. No brief filed on behalf of other appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.


SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Only the most naive city dweller would find credible a rumor that a company of his city's fire department proposed to sell its firehouse and move its trucks and equipment to a new firehouse which it planned to build somewhere in the county. Yet this is precisely what has happened in Annapolis, and neither the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis (the City) nor Mary M...

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