State Ex Rel. Rawlings v. Kansas City

TRIMBLE, P. J.-

Relator seeks, by mandamus, to compel the proper authorities of Kansas City to restore him to, and pay him the salary of, a position he held in the water department, under the city charter’s Civil Service Law. The trial court found for him, and, on October 15, 1921, issued the peremptory writ commanding that he be restored to his position and paid the salary thereof from June 15, 1918, the date he was discharged, to the date of his restoration. The city and its authorities at once appealed.

Relator, from fourteen years of ag’e, had worked as helper in a plumbing shop. He became…