State Ex Rel. Carlson v. Strunk

Loring, Chief Justice.

Two appeals are here for decision. One is from a judgment for a peremptory writ of mandamus directing certain state officers to restore to the state payroll for certain periods the petitioners-respondents and to make back salary payments to them. The petitioners-respondents had been game wardens in the employ of the division of game and fish in the conservation department but had been discharged. The other appeal is by the present conservation department officers from an order substituting them for the state officers in office during the periods for which restoration to…