CARTER v. CITY OF BALTIMORE

[No. 168, October Term, 1950.]

197 Md. 507 (1951)

80 A.2d 19

CARTER ET. AL. v. CITY OF BALTIMORE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 11, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Willis R. Jones, with whom were A. Risley Ensor and John K. Barbour, Jr., on the brief, for appellants.

C. Keating Bowie, Jr., with whom were Isaac Hecht, Thomas N. Biddison, City Solicitor of Baltimore, and Lloyd G. McAllister, Assistant City Solicitor, on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


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

This is the second appeal in the injunction suit brought by John M. Carter and other taxpayers to restrain the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and the board of trustees of the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City from closing the branch library in the Mt. Washington section and from transferring the use of the building to the Board of School Commissioners.

The Pratt Library was incorporated by Act...

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