Jones v. State Ex Rel. Veasey

This action comes into this court on a petition in error to the common pleas court of Cuyahoga county.

The plaintiffs in error constitute the board of civil service commissioners for the city of Cleveland, and the defendant in error, James Veasey, is a police officer in the city of Cleveland, who, in the court below, brought his action in mandamus in which he sought to compel the civil service commission of the city of Cleveland either to limit a scheduled promotional examination for the position of chief of police to one person, namely, the commissioner of traffic, or to compel the civil…