PRESSMAN v. CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE

[No. 217, September Term, 1959.]

222 Md. 330 (1960)

160 A.2d 379

PRESSMAN ET AL. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided April 25, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Prem and H. Warren Buckler, Jr., with whom was Hyman A. Pressman on the brief, for appellants.

William L. Marbury and John Martin Jones, Jr., with whom were Piper & Marbury on the brief, for Associated Dry Goods Corporation, Gorn Brothers, Inc., Hatton Homes, Inc., Walter J. Crismer and Mary J. Crismer, appellees.

William W. Cahill, Jr., and Albert L. Sklar, with whom were William J. Pittler, Sklar & Sullivan, Leonard Weinberg, and Weinberg & Green on the brief, for Food Fair Properties, Inc., appellee.

Francis X. Gallagher and Kenney & Gallagher on the brief, for Associated Catholic Charities, Inc., appellee.

Harrison L. Winter, City Solicitor, and James B. Murphy, Assistant City Solicitor, on the brief for Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, and Robert G. Dietrich, Building Inspection Engineer, appellees.

Kenneth C. Proctor on the brief, for Gorn Brothers, Inc., appellee.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ.


BRUNE, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is another shopping center case. It grows out of the proposed establishment of a large regional shopping center and an adjacent neighborhood shopping center. The complainants, now appellants, brought this suit in the Circuit Court of Baltimore City to have declared invalid three ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore (the City) rezoning certain tracts of land in that City from Residential to First...

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