Lowrey v. Mayor of Central Falls

Stiness, C. J.(1) The petition sets forth that on August 2nd, 1901, the petitioner, a police officer of the city of Central Falls in its paid department, was suspended by the mayor on charges preferred against him, upon which he was tried on August 12, 1901, by the board of aldermen.

The petition does not aver, in express terms, what the result of the trial was, but from the arguments and reference, in an amendment to the cause of error, to a section of the charter of the city “under which the petitioner was removed,” we assume that the board dismissed him from the police force.

But, even with…