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CITY OF BALTIMORE v. SILVER

[No. 43, September Term, 1971.]

263 Md. 439 (1971)

283 A.2d 788

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE ET AL. v. SILVER ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Motion for rehearing filed December 3, 1971.

Denied December 8, 1971.

Appeal dismissed October 10, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ambrose, T. Hartman, Deputy City Solicitor, and Gerald S. Klein, Assistant City Solicitor, with whom was George L. Russell, Jr., City Solicitor, on the brief, for appellants.

Eugene Hettleman for appellees.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by George M. Radcliffe, Edgar H. Gans, Wilbur D. Preston, Jr., and Stanley B. Rohd on behalf of themselves.

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

Appeal dismissed, Supreme Court of the United States, October 10, 1972.

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

On April 19, 1861, riots broke out in the streets of Baltimore inspiring James Ryder Randall to wax poetically, "Avenge the patriotic gore that flecked the streets of Baltimore."1 The occasion was the passage of Union troops through the City and in the aftermath, one Poultney, a gunsmith, sued the City for the...

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