Dougherty v. City of Parkersburg

Riley, President :

In this proceeding in mandamus, instituted in the Circuit Court of Wood County by Harry S. Dougherty against the City of Parkersburg, a municipal corporation, Golden Underwood, its mayor, and R. H. Boice, Robert S. Widmeyer, and William A. Smith, members of the Civil Service Commission of the City of Parkers-burg, the respondents prosecute this writ of error to a final order of the circuit court, entered on December 11, 1951, commanding them to reinstate and restore the petitioner, Harry S. Dougherty, to his former position of lieutenant in the police department of the city…