Soper v. Jones

The appellant, as a citizen and taxpayer of Baltimore City, and registered voter in the Fourth Congressional District, filed a bill in equity to restrain the Secretary of state from certifying to the board of supervisors of elections of the city the name of Ross Thalheimer, for printing on the ballot as that of a candidate for the United States Congress from the Fourth District, at the election of November 3rd, 1936, and to restrain the board from printing the name on the ballot. A demurrer to the bill by Thalheimer, intervening on his own behalf, was sustained, and the bill dismissed. After…