CROWN CENTRAL v. CITY OF BALTIMORE

[No. 314, September Term, 1969.]

258 Md. 82 (1970)

265 A.2d 192

CROWN CENTRAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morton A. Sacks, with whom were Cable, McDaniel, Bowie & Bond on the brief, for appellant.

Simon Schonfield, Assistant City Solicitor, with whom were George L. Russell, Jr., City Solicitor, and Clayton A. Dietrich, Chief Assistant Solicitor, on the brief, for appellee.

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


SINGLEY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court. BARNES, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 90 infra.

In 1948, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation (Crown Central) erected a gasoline filling station at Park Heights and Rogers Avenues in Baltimore. It chose for a site an historic battleground where William T. Biermann had lost his fight to build a filling station in January of 1947. The administrative denial of his application had been reversed by the Baltimore...

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