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BROWN v. WIMPRESS

[No. 205, September Term, 1967.]

250 Md. 200 (1968)

242 A.2d 157

BROWN, ET AL. v. WIMPRESS, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 31, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Burchett, with whom were James R. Miller, Jr., and Miller, Miller & Canby on the brief, for appellants.

C. Edward Nicholson for Richard S. Wimpress, et al., part of appellees; David E. Betts for Evening Star Broadcasting Co. another appellee; and Carter C. Hubbel, Jr., Assistant County Attorney, with whom were David L. Cahoon, County Attorney, and Alfred H. Carter, Deputy County Attorney, on the brief, for Montgomery County, Maryland, other appellee.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES, McWILLIAMS and SINGLEY, JJ.

HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. BARNES, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 210, infra.

On July 26, 1966, less than four months before its members left office at the insistence of the voters of Montgomery County and were replaced by a Council of newly elected members, the District Council rezoned from R-90 to R-20 a 38-acre tract of land lying southeast of the intersection of Democracy Boulevard and U.S. Route 240, although in January...

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