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BASTIAN v. WATKINS, CLERK

[No. 52, September Term, 1962.]

230 Md. 325 (1963)

187 A.2d 304

BASTIAN, ET AL. v. WATKINS, CLERK, ETC.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 9, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo V. Morgan, Jr., for appellants.

Robert S. Bourbon, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

Amicus Curiae Brief filed by Bar Association of Montgomery County, with Stedman Prescott, Jr., on the brief.

The cause was reargued on November 6, 1962, before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, HAMMOND, PRESCOTT, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.

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

The primary question presented on this appeal is whether a local rule of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, regulating who may file pleadings in that court, is valid or invalid. The appeal is from an order of court sustaining a demurrer to the petition of two attorneys at law (David C. Bastian and William J. Rowan) for a writ of mandamus to require the clerk of court (Clayton K. Watkins) to receive a pleading the...

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