STUART v. BOARD OF ELECTIONS

[No. 105, September Term, 1972.]

266 Md. 440 (1972)

295 A.2d 223

STUART v. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF ELECTIONS FOR HOWARD COUNTY ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 9, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arold H. Ripperger, with whom were Ann Llewellyn McKenzie, Kathryn Scates Levedahl and Mary Ellen Brooke on the brief, for appellant.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by The Women's Law Center, Emma A. Clarke on the brief.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by American Civil Liberties Union, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Melvin L. Wulf, Brenda Feigen Fasteau and Elsbeth L. Bothe on the brief.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by Lorraine Alice Underwood and Dennis Lichti Albrecht, Selma W. Samols on the brief.

E. Stephen Derby, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, and Charles E. Hogg on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.


MURPHY, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. SMITH, J., dissents and filed a dissenting opinion at page 451 infra.

Mary Emily Stuart and Samuel H. Austell, Jr., were married in Virginia on November 13, 1971 and, shortly thereafter, took up residence in Columbia, Howard County, Maryland. In accordance with the couple's oral antenuptial agreement, Stuart continued, after the marriage, to use and be exclusively known by her birth given ("maiden") name and...

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