Craighan v. O'Brien

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the respondents and appellants, as members of and constituting the board of health of the city and county of San Francisco, to replace the petitioner and respondent in the position of inspector of in digents in the department of health.

There is no dispute as to the facts which we deem material to this controversy. On September 6, 1916, the civil service commission, in accordance with its charter powers, duly established as a distinctive classification in the classified civil service of the city…