State Civil Service Commission v. Cummings

On the petition of Barnard Cummings, who had been, with approval of the State Civil Service Commission, serving and acting, in the capacity of a provisional appointee, as assistant commissioner of securities'under the secretary of state, the district court awarded him a writ of certiorari to review an order of the commission terminating his employment. The respondent board’s motion to quash the writ, based principally on laches of the petitioner, and that certiorari is not the proper remedy, was denied and the respondent then filed its return containing a complete transcript of all of its…