State ex rel. Brownlee v. City of Broadview Heights

This is an action in mandamus. Relator in his petition alleges that respondent city is a duly incorporated chartered city; that respondent Raymon Fetzek is its mayor; the eight other respondents are the councilmen of said city and as such are the appointing authority of the city for the chief of police and all employees and personnel of its police department; *255that relator is a sergeant in the respondent city’s police department; that on or about the 20th of October, 1966, relator duly submitted his application to take the promotional examination for chief of police in accordance with an…