Legal Opinion
Vigoda v. Superintendent of Boston State Hospital
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 5, 1958PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSpalding, J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, who is superintendent of the Boston State Hospital, to restore the petitioner to the position of psychiatric social worker at the hospital. The trial judge found that the petitioner had been improperly removed, and ordered a writ of mandamus to issue commanding the respondent to restore the petitioner to the position sought. From a final judgment entered in accordance with this order the respondent appealed. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 213, § 1D, inserted by St. 1943, c. 374, § 4 (see now St. 1957, c. 155).
Although the appeal…
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