HEGHINIAN v. FORD

[No. 92, October Term, 1955.]

209 Md. 113 (1956)

120 A.2d 339

HEGHINIAN v. FORD, ACTING COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 14, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Yeager for the appellant.

Norman P. Ramsey, Deputy Attorney General, with whom was C. Ferdinand Sybert, Attorney General, on the brief, for the appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, HENDERSON and HAMMOND, JJ.


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

The decision in this appeal may well mark the end of a minor phase of a crusade. The appellant, a woman physician, and, at the time, a police department doctor, sought by mandamus to compel the police commissioner of Baltimore City to revert to what is said to have been the practice for over forty years, recently departed from, and designate both a male and a female physician for each physical examination of...

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