Court of Appeals of Maryland October 1, 1992, [No. 92, October Term, 1955.] (Heghinian v. Ford)

Hammond, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The decision in this appeal may well mark the end of a minor phase of a crusade. The appellant, a woman physician, and, at the time, a police department doctor, sought by

mandamus

to compel the police commissioner of Baltimore City to revert to what is said to have been the practice for over forty years, recently departed from, and designate both a