WILSON v. BOARD OF CTY. COMM'RS

[No. 146, September Term, 1974.]

273 Md. 30 (1974)

327 A.2d 488

WILSON ET UX. v. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF ALLEGANY COUNTY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided November 7, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence F. Rodowsky, with whom were Shale D. Stiller and Frank, Bernstein, Conaway & Goldman on the brief, for appellants.

Luke Marbury and William J. McCarthy, with whom were Venable, Baetjer & Howard and Fred H. Anderson, County Attorney, on the brief, for Board of County Commissioners of Allegany County, part of appellees. Edward O. Clarke, Jr., with whom were Wm. Gar Richlin and Piper & Marbury on the brief, for SCM Corporation and Dover Poultry Products, Inc., part of appellees. Submitted on brief by Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Henry R. Lord, Deputy Attorney General, and Michael J. Milton, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Maryland, part of appellees; by S. Nelson Weeks, James C. Doub and Miles & Stockbridge for Allied Chemical Corporation, part of appellees; and by Benjamin L. Brown, City Solicitor, Ambrose T. Hartman, Deputy City Solicitor and Robert Edelson, Assistant City Solicitor, for Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, other appellees.

The cause was argued before SMITH, DIGGES, LEVINE, ELDRIDGE and O'DONNELL, JJ., and E. MACKALL CHILDS, Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit and ROBERT F. SWEENEY, Chief Judge of the District Court of Maryland, specially assigned.


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

We shall here affirm a holding that revenue bonds proposed to be issued by the County Commissioners of Allegany County (the County) in connection with pollution control measures to be installed by Westvaco Corporation (the Company) are valid. The Company has a plant at Luke in Allegany County. Its 2000-man payroll is of substantial importance to a county with a population as reflected...

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