Creager v. Hooper
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Ritchie, J.), which set forth that “ the demurrer in this case having been overruled with leave to plead to or traverse the answer, and the petitioner having in open Court declined to plead over or traverse the answer filed by the respondent, it is ordered by the Court here, this 15th day of April, 1896, that the petition herein be and the same is hereby dismissed with costs to the respondent.”
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Appeal from an order of the Superior Court of Baltimore City (Ritchie, J.), which set forth that “ the demurrer in this case having been overruled with leave to plead to or traverse the answer, and the petitioner having in open Court declined to plead over or traverse the answer filed by the respondent, it is ordered by the Court here, this 15th day of April, 1896, that the petition herein be and the same is hereby dismissed with costs to the respondent.” The appellant’s petition, after reciting the passage by the City Council of an ordinance providing for the election of a City Collector by…
1Opinion of the CourtRussum, J.
On the 16th day of March, 1896, the appellant filed his petition, in the Superior Court of Baltimore City, for a mandamus, directed to the Honorable Alcaeus Hooper, Mayor of Baltimore, to compel him to administer to the petitioner the oath of office as City Collector, setting up the passage of an ordinance, over the veto of the Mayor, and the election of the petitioner to said position by the City Council, in pursuance of the provisions of such ordinance.
To that petition an answer was filed by the Mayor, in which he neither admitted nor denied some of the material averments of the petition,…
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