Andrews v. Police Board
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On Report. This was a petition for a writ of certiorari, praying that the board of Police Commissioners of the city of Biddeford be ordered to certify their l’ecords relating to the attempted removal of the petitioner from the office of police officer of the city of Biddeford, to the end that so much thereof as is illegal may be quashed. PETITION: State oe Maine. York, ss.
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On Report. This was a petition for a writ of certiorari, praying that the board of Police Commissioners of the city of Biddeford be ordered to certify their l’ecords relating to the attempted removal of the petitioner from the office of police officer of the city of Biddeford, to the end that so much thereof as is illegal may be quashed. PETITION: State oe Maine. York, ss. To the Honorable Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court: Respectfully represents Leonard Andrews of Biddeford, in the County of York and State of Maine, that on the third day of July, A. D. 1893, he was duly appointed Police…
1Opinion of the CourtHaskell, J.
Petition for certiorari to quash the order of the Board of Police in the city of Biddeford, dismissing the plaintiff and twenty-six others from the police force.
The act of 1893, c. 625, established a board of police in Biddeford, with “authority to appoint, establish and organize the police *76force of said city, including the marshal and deputy marshal, and to remove the same for cause and make all needful rules and regulations for its government, control and efficiency.” It gave the board the same power for governing the police then vested in the city government, except as provided by the act.…
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