State Ex Rel. Dillon v. Neal

Lively, Judge:

Upon the petition of S. J. Dillon and J. W. Simms, an alternative 'writ of mandamus ivas issued against W. E. Neal, Mayor of the city of Huntington, and Homer Yeieh and James Murphy, commissioners of that city, commanding them to employ relators as policemen and assign them duties as such, and place them on the payroll, or show cause why the same should not be done.

The mayor and the two commissioners have made separate returns. The return of the commissioners is in support of the petition of the relators and the alternative writ, and asks that the peremptory writ be issued…