State Ex Rel. Cutright v. Akron Civil Service Commission

Two petitions, each seeking a writ of mandamus, were filed originally in this court. In view of the fact that the questions involved in each case are in all essential respects the same, the cases have been consolidated for trial.

In each case the relator is a police officer in the city of Akron (Carroll Cutright in one and George May in the other); the defendants are the Akron Civil Service Commission and the members thereof; the mayor, who was also ex officio safety director of the city; and a fellow police officer named Boyd Burk.

The amended petitions state, and the claims in trial are, in…