State Ex Rel. Dunn v. Ayers

This is an appeal from a judgment of dismissal by the District Court of Lewis and Clark county pursuant to an order sustaining a motion to quash an alternative writ of mandamus theretofore issued.

The petition for the writ set out that the petitioner was a duly licensed physician in Montana; that on March 4, 1937, he was appointed assistant superintendent of the Montana Asylum for the Insane by the then Governor, Roy E. Ayers, and that on the same date his appointment was confirmed by the Senate of the Twenty-fifth Legislative Assembly; that subsequently a commission was duly issued to him;…