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PITTMAN v. HOME OWNERS' CORP.

No. 10.

308 U.S. 21 (1939)

PITTMAN, CLERK OF THE SUPERIOR COURT OF BALTIMORE, v. HOME OWNERS' LOAN CORP.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. H. Vernon Eney, Assistant Attorney General of Maryland, and William C. Walsh, Attorney General, with whom Mr. William L. Henderson, Deputy Attorney General, was on the brief, for petitioner.

Solicitor General Jackson, with whom Assistant Attorney General Clark and Messrs. Sewall Key, Warner W. Gardner, Berryman Green, and Harold Lee were on the brief, for respondent.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

The Home Owners' Loan Corporation brought this proceeding in the Baltimore City Court for a writ of mandamus requiring the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore to record a mortgage executed to the Corporation upon the payment of the ordinary recording charge and without affixing stamps for the state recording tax. Demurrer to the petition was overruled, the Clerk...

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