McNatt v. Lawther

N. J. McNatt and others brought this suit against Joe E. Lawther and others, as mayor and commissioners of the city of Dallas, for a mandamus, to require the defendants to reinstate the plaintiffs as firemen in the employ of the said city. The court sustained a general demurrer to the petition, so that it becomes necessary to state in some detail the contents of said pleading. The allegations of such petition were, in substance: That the plaintiffs had been, for some time prior to the acts of the defendants complained of, employed by the city of Dallas as firemen, performing the duties and…