Smith v. Hackett
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. (Pattison, C. J., and Jones and Stanford, JJ.) The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtUrner, J.
The appellant and appellee were candidates of the democratic and republican parties, respectively, for the office of county commissioner of Dorchester County at the last general election. Upon the certified returns the appellee was. elected by a, plurality of twenty-seven votes. In this proceeding the appellant disputes the declared result and asserts that he in fact received a larger number of valid votes than the appellee, and was therefore duly elected.
The principal ground of the contest is that the polling place provided by the Supervisors of Election, for the second precinct of the…
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