GORDON v. CITY OF BALTIMORE

[No. 37 (Adv.), September Term, 1970.]

258 Md. 682 (1970)

267 A.2d 98

GORDON v. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed July 31 1970.

Denied August 17, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Thieblot and John D. Alexander, Jr., with whom were Allen, Thieblot & Alexander on the brief, for appellant.

Howard E. Wallin, Assistant City Solicitor, with whom were George L. Russell, Jr., City Solicitor, and Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Solicitor, on the brief, for appellees Mayor and City Council of Baltimore and Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City.

Ambler H. Moss, with whom was William A. Fisher, Jr., on the brief, for appellee The Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.


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

George Peabody, one of the greatest of the nineteenth century philanthropists, cast his gift to the people of Baltimore in a form typical of his time.1 He determined to establish an "institute" which would have as its purpose "the improvement of the moral and intellectual culture of the inhabitants of Baltimore, and collaterally to those of the State...

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