Jagger v. Green

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The plaintiff asks for a writ of mandamus to compel the defendants, who constitute the board of commissioners of the city of Kansas City, to recognize him as a “field man” of the department of health, to which position he was appointed under civil service rules and from which he was removed by the defendants without cause. The defendants move to quash the alternative writ, on the ground that it does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause of action. The decision turns primarily upon the force to be given to the civil service law…