Parr v. Severson

By a writ of mandamus, the buildings engineer and the city service commission of Baltimore City have been commanded to reinstate in the classified city service Charles P. Severson, petitioner for the writ, who had been discharged, and to re-enter his name on the official roster of employment in the proper order of his seniority; and the appeal is from that order. In the trial court, the hearing on the petition was had before the judge sitting without a jury. Strott v. Broening, 160 Md. 560, 570, 154 A. 45; University of Maryland v. Murray, 169 Md. 478, 182 A. 590.

The petitioner had been…