State ex rel. Campbell v. Police Commissioners

This was an application to the circuit court for a writ of prohibition. The petition shows that the relator is chief of police, and the defendants constitute the board of police commissioners of the city of St. Louis. That the commissioners are authorized by law to suspend from the police force any member thereof, after trial and due hearing, and upon proper cause and charges, and not otherwise. They are further authorized by law to make rules for such trials, and for the government of the police; and, in pursuance of such authority, have made certain rules now in force, including rule 167,…