State ex rel. Tanner v. Police Board of New Orleans

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Nioholls, C. J'.

William J. Tanner, a corporal in the police force ■of the city of New Orleans, applied to the Civil District Court, for the parish of Orleans, for a writ of certiorari commanding the Police Board of that city to send up to that court the record of its proceedings against him, to the end that their validity might be ascertained, praying that its sentence dismissing him from that force be decreed to be null and void, but praying in the alternative, “should certiorari be held not to be the proper remedy in the premises, that a writ of…