McLane v. Hobbs
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was ° submitted on brief for the appellant, to Alyey, C. J., Miller, Robinson, Irving, Bryan, Fowler, McSiierry, and Briscoe, J. One’s domicile is “where he has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.”
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Frederick County. The case is stated in the opinion of the Court. The cause was ° submitted on brief for the appellant, to Alyey, C. J., Miller, Robinson, Irving, Bryan, Fowler, McSiierry, and Briscoe, J. One’s domicile is “where he has his true, fixed, permanent home and principal establishment, and to which, whenever he is absent, he has the intention of returning.” Jacobs on Domicile, sec. 65; Phillimore on Domicile, 11. “A person’s residence is the place of his domicile, or the place where his habitation is fixed, without any present intention of removing…
1Opinion of the CourtBriscoe, J.
This appeal is from the rulings of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, on an appeal of the appellant from the refusal of the appellee, Hobbs, to register his name as a qualified voter of District Ho. 2, of Frederick County, Avhich includes Frederick City. The facts of the ease set out in the record are these, the appellant being the only witness. He testified that he Avas born in election district number two, (Frederick City,) Frederick County, but removed to Washington City,’ in the District of Columbia about the year 18T0, where he married, went to hous'e-keejnng and worked at his…
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