Butcher v. Civil Service Commission

Bok, P. J.,

This is a petition for a writ of alternative mandamus. Plaintiff seeks to compel the Civil Service Commission of Philadelphia to allow him to inspect the questions used by the commission in its examination of candidates for hosemen in 1944. The commission has filed a return to which plaintiff has demurred.

Plaintiff bases his claim on article XIX, sec. 14, of the Philadelphia City Charter Act of June 25, 1919, P. L. 581, 53 PS §3334, which reads:

“All minutes, examination papers, eligible lists, and other records of the commission, ... as well as all *46recommendations and…