Handy v. Hopkins
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeals from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. The appellees filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, contesting the election of D. Claude Handy, John W. Williams, John W. Shipley, George N. Potee and Thomas H. Arnold, as County Commissioners.
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Appeals from the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County. The appellees filed a petition in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, contesting the election of D. Claude Handy, John W. Williams, John W. Shipley, George N. Potee and Thomas H. Arnold, as County Commissioners. The petition alleged that the said Handy, Williams, Shipley, Potee and Arnold had been returned as duly elected County Commissioners at the general election in November, 1881; and that they had entered upon the administration of the said offices; and that in the fifth and sixth election districts of Anne Arundel County,…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This case comes before us on appeal, and the only question presented here is one of jurisdiction of the Circuit Court to pass the order of the 20th of July, 1882.
The Code, Art. 35, sec. 53, provides that “All cases of contested elections of any of the officers not provided for in the Constitution, or in the preceding section, shall be decided by the Judges of the several Circuit Courts—each in his respective Circuit—and by the Superior Court of Baltimore City, in the City of Baltimore.”
This section of the Code was taken from the Act of 1853, ch. 244, sec. 2, passed in reference to the…
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