NORTHAMPTON CORP. v. WASH. S.S. COMM'N

[No. 79, September Term, 1976.]

278 Md. 677 (1976)

366 A.2d 377

NORTHAMPTON CORPORATION ET AL. v. WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 7, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn T. Harrell, Jr., and George A. Brugger, with whom were Fossett & Brugger, William E. Knight, Shipley, O'Malley & Miles, Charles G. Dalrymple, David D. Freishtat, Linowes & Blocher, Stephen R. Creyke, Williams, Haynes & Creyke, Richard Schifter, William B. Hoffman and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman on the brief, for appellants.

Paul T. Sisson, with whom was J. Eugene Cleary on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SINGLEY, SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE and ORTH, JJ.


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

This case is a frontal attack mounted by 13 property owners (the Property Owners) against an interim sewer service charge (the Service Charge) imposed by Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (the Commission).

The Commission is a body corporate, created by Chapter 122 of the Laws of 1918, see State v. Canova, 278 Md. 483, 365 A.2d 988

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