Chamberlain v. Board of Supervisors of Elections

These two appeals in one record are from the action of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County in dismissing two petitions for a writ of mandamus to require the Board of Supervisors of Elections of Baltimore County to place the petitioner’s name upon the ballot as a candidate for election to the County Council in the election to be held on January 23, 1957. The appeal was advanced for argument in this Court and we affirmed the action of the trial court in a per curiam opinion filed January 11, 1957. We now state briefly the reasons therefor.

A special election for the first County Council under…