Legal Opinion
Lamb v. Hammond
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 7, 1987No. 133 September Term, 1986PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILNER, Judge.
A number of descriptive terms might be used to characterize the race between John R. Hammond and Donald E. Lamb for a seat in the House of Delegates, but “landslide” would surely not be one of them. As the case reaches this Court, Mr. Hammond appears to be the winner over Mr. Lamb by exactly one vote. That hair-thin margin of victory was realized, however, only after the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, on a complaint filed by Mr. Hammond, directed the county board of canvassers to count 12 absentee ballots that the board had initially rejected.
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2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Duffy v. ConawayCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1983
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3Cited by27 opinions
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