WASHBURNE AND DIRECTOR OF FINANCE v. HOFFMAN, ETC.

[No. 219, September Term, 1965.]

242 Md. 519 (1966)

219 A.2d 826

WASHBURNE AND DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD. v. HOFFMAN, ET AL., ETC. WASHBURNE v. DIRECTOR OF FINANCE, BALTIMORE COUNTY, MD.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided May 26, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jervis Spencer Finney, for Thomas D. Washburne, one of appellants, and E. Scott Moore and Mrs. Jean G. Rogers, with whom was Walter R. Haile on the brief, for Director of Finance, Baltimore County, Maryland, other appellant, and one of appellees.

Richard C. Murray and John J. Caslin, with whom was Donald J. Gilmore on the brief, for W. Ross Hoffman, et al., constituting the majority members of the Board of Supervisors of Elections for Baltimore County, appellees.

The cause was argued before PRESCOTT, C.J., and MARBURY, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ., and EVANS, J., Associate Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit, specially assigned.


McWILLIAMS, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

These three appeals are the consequence of a minor skirmish in the perennial conflict between the majority and minority political parties in Baltimore County. The autonomy of the Board of Supervisors of Elections (Board), controlled by appointees of the majority (2 out of 3 members), has been challenged by leaders of the minority. Since the appeals all arose out of the same facts, which, with few exceptions, are...

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