Rawlings v. Armstrong

Joseph M. Armstrong, a citizen, resident and taxpayer of Annapolis, and also the chairman of the Republican City Committee for that City, on April 26, 1945, by letter requested the Board of Supervisors of Elections for the City of Annapolis to furnish him with a complete, certified copy of the names, addresses, color and ages of the registered voters in the First and Third Wards of Annapolis. The Board refused, and on May 2, 1945, Mr. Armstrong filed a petition for mandamus in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County to compel the furnishing of the list. To the petition a demurrer was filed…