MONTGOMERY COUNTY v. ELI

No. 495, September Term, 1973.

20 Md. App. 269 (1974)

315 A.2d 136

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND v. JOHN ELI ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided February 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Park, Assistant County Attorney, with whom were Richard S. McKernon, County Attorney for Montgomery County, Robert G. Tobin, Jr., Deputy County Attorney, and Joseph Ferrante, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, on the brief, for appellant.

Andrew J. Graham and Gary A. Graham for appellees.

The cause was argued before MENCHINE, MOORE and LOWE, JJ.


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

The process of determining legislative intent in matters of apparent statutory conflict has all of the procedural discipline of a picture puzzle. The interpretor thumbs through the myriad disjointed pieces until he happens upon similarities in any two. He then has a beginning. The rules of interpretation are equally well disciplined. One tells us "Where the public general law and the public local law of any county, city...

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