Sullivan v. Commissioner of Commerce & Development

Each petitioner sought a writ of mandamus to require the respondents as, respectively, the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Development of the Commonwealth and the Deputy Commissioner of that department, to reinstate him to his former position of employment. The petitioners have appealed from orders sustaining the demurrers of the respondents. There was no error.

The petitions allege provisional appointments of the petitioners on November 29, 1964, as senior construction engineers ; the approval of the appointments by the Director of Civil Service on December 24, 1964; and the…