CITY OF BALTIMORE v. HOOPER

No. 125, September Term, 1987.

312 Md. 378 (1988)

539 A.2d 1130

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE v. WILLIAM D. HOOPER, JR., ESQUIRE AND LENTZ, HOOPER, JACOBS & BLEVINS, P.A.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 12, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry L. Chase, Asst. City Sol. and Michael G. Raimondi, Asst. City Sol. (Neal M. Janey, City Sol. and Joseph L. Woytowitz, Chief Sol., on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Deborah L. Skillman, Bel Air, for appellee.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS, BLACKWELL, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland (retired), Specially Assigned.


CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Associate Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.

I

For over a hundred and twenty-five years it has been the law of Maryland that

municipal corporations and their officers having money or property in their hands to which other persons are entitled are not liable to the creditors of such persons on attachment or garnishment process unless made so by statute or charter.

City of Baltimore v. Comptroller,

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