de Castro v. Board of Commissioners of San Juan

Me. Justice De Jesús

delivered the opinion of the court.

On April 11, 1939, Dr. Carlos M. de Castro filed, in the District Court of San Juan, a petition for certiorari to review and annul a certain resolution of the Board of Commissioners of San Juan, dated the 5th of the same month and year, to take effect as from January 7, 1939, whereby he was removed from the office of City Manager of the Capital, to which he had been appointed by said hoard on January 4, 1937. The petition having been denied by a .judgment of August 21, 1939, the petitioner appealed to this court, which, on June 28, 1940,…