Commissioners of Civil Service v. Municipal Court

The case is here on exceptions, allowed and treated as a notice of appeal (see Mass. R. Civ. P. 1A, par. 7, 365 Mass. 731 [1974], Mass. R. A. P. 1A, 365 Mass. 845 [1974]), to a judgment of a single justice of this court which directed that certiorari issue to set aside a decision of the Municipal Court of the Brighton District and to affirm a decision of the Civil Service Commission dismissing a Boston patrolman from the service.2 Agreeing with the single justice, we affirm his judgment.

To recount the proceedings from the start: In April, 1970, Patrolman John A. Fatuto (hereafter called the…