CTY. COMM'RS OF CECIL CTY. v. PHILLIPS

[No. 394, September Term, 1969.]

255 Md. 229 (1969)

257 A.2d 158

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CECIL COUNTY, ET AL. v. PHILLIPS ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Constable, with whom was Kenneth A. Wilcox on the brief, for Elk Paper Manufacturing Company, one of the appellants.

William B. Calvert for the County Commissioners of Cecil County, the other appellant.

Leonard E. Wilson for appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and MARBURY, BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN and SMITH, JJ.


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

The Elk Paper Manufacturing Company (the Company) was established in 1843. For the succeeding 123 years it made paper on a 27 acre tract which straddles Little Elk Creek and lies within the quadrangle formed by the villages of Childs, Leeds, Cherry Hill and Singerly. The area is about three miles north of Elkton.

Captain John Smith first explored the rivers of Cecil County in 1608; 354 years later, on 30...

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