Smith v. Bryan
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, rendered October 1, 1900, on a petition for a mandamus, wherein the plaintiff in error was the plaintiff, and the defendant in error was the respondent.
1Opinion of the CourtWhittle, J.
This controversy has arisen out of a denial, by the Hustings Court of the city of Roanoke, of the prayer of the petition of the plaintiff in error, O. A. Smith, for a peremptory writ -of mandamus to compel the defendant in error, J. R. Bryan, Mayor, to restore petitioner to the police force of that city, from which, as the petitioner alleges, he had been illegally discharged
The evidence was not certified, but it appears from the pleading that the litigation involves the tenure of office of the plaintiff in error as a policeman. 'The solution of that question depends upon the proper…
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