Yerkes v. Board of Supervisors of Elections
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Mandamus proceeding by Clinton J. Yerkes against David G. Black, and others, constituting the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Cecil County. From an order dismissing the petition for mandamus, petitioner appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtPattison, J.
In this case Clinton J. Yerkes, a Democratic candidate for sheriff at the primary election held on Friday, September 9th, 1921, in Cecil County, was, by the official count, returned defeated by one J. Wesley McAllister, also a candidate for sheriff of the same party.
On the 15th day of September of that year, Yerkes submitted to the Honorable Lewin W. Wiokes, Associate Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit of Maryland, of which Cecil County is a component part, a petition addressed to the appellees, “David Gr. Black, Robert B. Foard and Victor R. Bennett, constituting the Board of Supervisors…
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