Legal Opinion

Turner v. Crosby

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided October 28, 1896PublishedCited by 3 opinions

Appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County (Revell, J.), dismissing the petition of the appellant, which asked for the passage of an order directing the officers of registration of said county to enter petitioner’s name as a qualified voter on the registration lists.

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Appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County (Revell, J.), dismissing the petition of the appellant, which asked for the passage of an order directing the officers of registration of said county to enter petitioner’s name as a qualified voter on the registration lists. The petitioner’s evidence was to the effect that he lived, during his childhood, with his parents in Anne Arundel County, and was registered as a voter there upon obtaining his majority, and had voted there ever since until the preceding year; that he had never attempted to register or vote in any other…

1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.

The appellant, David H. Turner, applied to the appellees, William Crosby and Lloyd E. Dorsey, registers of voters of the Fourth Election District qf Anne Arundel County, at their September sitting, in the year 1896, to be registered as a qualified voter of that district. He was refused registration and thereupon appealed to the Circuit Court for that county. The decision of the officers of registration having been affirmed he has appealed to this Court.

Turner testified that he was born in Baltimore City, but moved with his father to the Fourth Election District of Anne Arundel County when an…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Langhammer v. MunterCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1895

3Cited by3 opinions

  1. Blount v. BostonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1998
  2. Howard v. SkinnerCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1898
  3. Chew v. WilsonCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1901

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