MURRAY, ETC. v. COMPTROLLER OF TREASURY

[No. 189, September Term, 1965.]

241 Md. 383 (1966)

216 A.2d 897

MURRAY, TRUSTEE, ET AL. AND CREE, ET AL. v. COMPTROLLER OF THE TREASURY, STATE OF MARYLAND, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari denied October 10, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard J. Kerpelman for Lemoin Cree and his wife, and the Freethought Society of America, part of appellants; and Martin J. Scheiman, with whom were Good & Haffner and Walter S. Haffner on the brief, for Madalyn E. Murray, Trustee, and others, other appellants.

Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, with whom was Robert C. Murphy, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief, for Comptroller of the Treasury and others, part of appellees; Francis X. Gallagher for the Most Reverend Lawrence J. Shehan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Baltimore, another appellee, Joseph Allen, City Solicitor, and Clayton A. Dietrich, Chief Assistant City Solicitor on the brief, for Supervisor of Assessments of Baltimore City and others, part of appellees; William L. Marbury and Mathias J. DeVito on the brief for The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Maryland, other appellees; Marvin Braiterman for Temple Emanuel of Baltimore, another appellee; George F. Flentje, Jr., with whom was Earl E. Manges on the brief, for Maryland Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, other appellee.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.


Certiorari denied, Supreme Court of the United States, October 10, 1966.

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

Maryland's statutory exemption from state, county and city taxation of structures used exclusively for public worship and any parsonage and grounds appurtenant thereto is attacked as violative of the Declaration of Rights of the Maryland Constitution and of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States...

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