Nichols v. Dunton
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions by petitioner. This is' a petition for a writ of mandamus in which the petitioner asks that the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Bath be compelled to give him an “official and judicial hearing” on a complaint made by him to said Mayor and Aldermen against a police officer of said city, for alleged misconduct of said officer towards said petitioner. Notice for a hearing on said petition was ordered.
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On exceptions by petitioner. This is' a petition for a writ of mandamus in which the petitioner asks that the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Bath be compelled to give him an “official and judicial hearing” on a complaint made by him to said Mayor and Aldermen against a police officer of said city, for alleged misconduct of said officer towards said petitioner. Notice for a hearing on said petition was ordered. The petition was filed and the respondents filed a motion to dismiss the petition on the ground that the petitioner was not entitled by law to such official and judicial hearing. The…
1Opinion of the CourtPhilbrook, J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus. The petitioner, feeling aggrieved by the conduct of a police officer of the Citjr of Bath, filed a statement of his grievance with the respondents, who were then the Mayor and Aldermen of said city, and accompanied his statement with a demand that the officer be discharged from his official position. A copy of the petitioner’s statement and demand make a part of the record, and while these do not disclose a request for a hearing before the board yet the petitioner avers in his bill that such a hearing was requested but never given.
This petition was…
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