HAVRE DE GRACE v. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH

[No. 319, September Term, 1963.]

234 Md. 222 (1964)

198 A.2d 732

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF HAVRE DE GRACE, ET AL. v. STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided March 19, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Henry Lewin, with whom were John W. Hardwicke and Charles B. Reeves, Jr., on the brief, for appellants.

Louis E. Schmidt, Special Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, on the brief, for State Board of Health and Mental Hygiene, part of appellees.

J. Wilmer Cronin, for Cecil Sale, Sr., et al., other appellees.

The cause was argued before BRUNE, C.J., and HENDERSON, PRESCOTT and HORNEY, JJ., and DUCKETT, J., Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

In this action by the State Board of Health1 to compel the City of Havre de Grace to construct a sewage treatment plant and place it in operation, the principal question relates to the authority of the Board to enforce compliance with its order directing construction of the plant.

On November 18, 1954, the Board, by virtue of the authority

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