Brattin v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus against the respondents as members of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners to compel the respondent Dana, as commissioner, to certify the name of the petitioner for appointment to police service in the city of Boston as of January 12, 1920, and to compel the respondent board to take such action as may be necessary to continue further the name of the petitioner upon the list of persons eligible for such certification. The case was heard by a single justice of this court who thereafter entered the following order: “ In the above entitled case it is…