State Ex Rel. West Virginia State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police v. City of Charleston

Fox, Judge:

The West Virginia State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police, Capitol City Lodge No. 74, Fraternal Order of Police, and Herman Fraser and James Gullian, individually, complain of an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County, dated May 25, 1948, entered in a mandamus proceeding in which they were relators, and the City of Charleston, a municipal corporation, and R. Carl Andrews, its Mayor, and John T. Moore, its City Manager, were respondents. Said order denied the writ of mandamus prayed for. A writ of error to such judgment was denied by the Circuit Court of Kanawha County,…