CITIZENS COMMITTEE v. CO. COMM.

[No. 135, September Term, 1963.]

233 Md. 398 (1964)

197 A.2d 108

CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, INC., ET AL. v. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 30, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus King and Malcolm B. Smith, with whom were Rice & King and Smith & Wohlgemuth on the brief, for the appellants.

Jerome F. Connell, Special Counsel, for the Board of County Commissioners, one of the appellees.

Ward B. Coe, Jr., with whom were G.C.A. Anderson and Anderson, Coe & King on the brief, for The Southern Maryland Development Company, Inc., the other appellee.

The cause was argued before HENDERSON, HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and SYBERT, JJ.


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

This action for injunctive relief, instituted by an incorporated citizens committee and a group of individual county residents, citizens and taxpayers against the County Commissioners of Anne Arundel County, challenges the constitutionality and validity of such of the local laws, and the ordinances and resolutions passed pursuant thereto, as purport to authorize the operation of gambling devices and activities in the...

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