Martin v. Aldermen of Newton

This purports to be an appeal under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 213, § ID, inserted by St. 1943, c. 374, § 4, from a final judgment upon a petition for a writ of mandamus ordering the respondents to reinstate the petitioner to his office of comptroller of accounts of the city of Newton with the payment of a certain amount for back salary. There is also an appeal from an order overruling a demurrer which has not been argued separate and apart from the merits.

The petitioner, who had been the accountant for the city for several years, was informed in the summer of 1955 that he should resign. He declined…