Gardner v. City of Lowell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract against the city of Lowell to recover the amount of money that the plaintiff would have earned as a foreman of laborers of the street department of the defendant from July 21, 1914, to the date of the writ, if he had not been suspended from his position in the manner stated in the opinion.
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Contract against the city of Lowell to recover the amount of money that the plaintiff would have earned as a foreman of laborers of the street department of the defendant from July 21, 1914, to the date of the writ, if he had not been suspended from his position in the manner stated in the opinion. Writ dated July 21, 1914. In the Superior Court the case was tried before McLaughlin, J. The evidence offered by the plaintiff and excluded by the judge is described in the opinion. The judge ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. St. 1904, c. 314, entitled “An…
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C. J.
The plaintiff seeks to recover from the defendant in an action of contract for alleged services rendered after January 5, 1914. Theretofore the plaintiff was foreman of laborers in the street department of the defendant. On that day one Morse, as commissioner of streets and highways, took charge of that department and gave notice to the plaintiff of his intent to suspend him indefinitely on the ground that the position held by him was not necessary and that in a more economical administration of the department its duties could be transferred to others, and that he was entitled to a hearing in…
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