State ex rel. Shriver v. Ellis

*162OPINION

By PHILLIPS, J.

Relators were discharged' by respondent, the duly appointed, qualified and acting Director of Public Service and an executive officer of the city of Martins Ferry, Ohio, a municipal corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of that state, in which corporation they worked when discharged.

Subsequent to discharge relators filed separate suits in mandamus in the court of common pleas seeking restoration to their respective former “positions” on the alleged ground that they were civil service employees of the city of Martins Ferry, Ohio, when…