BURNS v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF MIDLAND

[No. 531, September Term, 1966.]

247 Md. 548 (1967)

234 A.2d 162

BURNS, ET UX. v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF MIDLAND, MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 10, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horace P. Whitworth and Hugh A. McMullen, with whom were Gunter & Geppert on the brief, for appellants.

John C. Sullivan for appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER, McWILLIAMS, JJ., and RUTLEDGE, J., Associate Judge of the Fourth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


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

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court for Allegany County authorizing the Mayor and City Council of Midland, a municipal corporation, to raze a building of the appellants under a town ordinance authorizing the demolition of any structure found by the town to be dangerous to life or health. The appellants contend that the ordinance is unconstitutional because...

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