Avery v. Studley, Mayor
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Applications in the nature of appeals from the action of the mayor of the city of New Haven in removing the applicants from the office of police commissioners, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried together to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in each case approving and confirming the action of the mayor, and appeal by the respective applicants for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court.
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Applications in the nature of appeals from the action of the mayor of the city of New Haven in removing the applicants from the office of police commissioners, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried together to the court, Ralph Wheeler, J.; facts found and judgment rendered in each case approving and confirming the action of the mayor, and appeal by the respective applicants for alleged errors in the rulings and findings of the court. After the hearing in the Superior Court counsel agreed that in the appeals to the Supreme Court of Errors the reeord of but one of the four…
1Opinion of the CourtHamersley, J.
The mayor of New Haven removed the plaintiff from the office of police commissioner. The plaintiff appealed from the order of removal to the Superior Court. The court affirmed the action of the mayor, and this appeal is from that judgment.
The reasons of appeal allege that the court erred in overruling the claims of law made by the plaintiff upon the trial. These claims were that the mayor had no jurisdiction of the subject-matter of removal, and that, if he had jurisdiction, the order of removal was illegal by reason of errors committed by the mayor in the course of the hearing before him.…
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