Nightingale v. Williams

Plaintiff commenced this action in mandamus in the superior court of Alameda County to compel the defendant, as auditor of the city of Oakland, to draw and sign his warrant upon the treasury of that city for the amount of his salary as a member of the municipal police department during the period of his suspension from that office. The facts of the case briefly are that on July 11, 1921, the plaintiff, while a member of such police department, shot and killed one Joseph Suppro. He was immediately accused of murder and was arrested upon that charge. The chief of the police department, in…