Niblo v. City of Philadelphia

Brown, Jr., J.,

Plaintiff has demurred to defendant’s return to a writ of alternative mandamus issued upon his petition to be designated as a patrolman of the Bureau of Police, Department of Public Safety of Philadelphia. Taking the facts from the return (the truth of which is admitted by the demurrer), it appears that plaintiff was appointed to the police force of Philadelphia on July 12, 1911; that he resigned on January 7, 1918; that he was reappointed on January 7, 1918; that he was suspended on February 2, 1929; that on February 20, 1929, he was tried by the Civil Service Commission,…