City of Seat Pleasant v. Jones

BELL, Chief Judge.

This case presents the issue of the propriety of the issuance of a writ of mandamus by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County. That court issued the writ based on its conclusion that the Seat Pleasant City Board of Supervisors of Elections, one of the appellants,1 acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it admittedly denied a registered voter the right to vote in that city’s mayoral election, which was decided by a one vote margin, where the stipulation of the parties, in turn premised on the post-election declaration of that voter, was that she intended to vote for…