Butler v. Directors of Port of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on February 18, 1915, for a writ of mandamus commanding the directors of the port of Boston to reinstate the petitioner as their mechanical foreman as of the date of August 5, 1914. The answer of the respondents incorporated a demurrer which stated as the first ground of demurrer that the petitioner alleged no facts entitling him to the relief which he sought.
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Petition, filed on February 18, 1915, for a writ of mandamus commanding the directors of the port of Boston to reinstate the petitioner as their mechanical foreman as of the date of August 5, 1914. The answer of the respondents incorporated a demurrer which stated as the first ground of demurrer that the petitioner alleged no facts entitling him to the relief which he sought. The case was heard by Crosby, J., who ordered that the demurrer be sustained on the first ground alleged therein and that the petition be dismissed; and, at the request of the petitioner assented to by the respondents,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus. It was heard on a demurrer embodied in an answer. For the purposes of this discussion the facts well pleaded in the. petition must be assumed to be true. The substance of these,facts is that the petitioner in December, 1913, was appointed to the office of mechanical foreman by the directors of the port of Boston, a public board, in accordance with the law and. the regulations of the civil service commission. On August, 5, 1914, he received a letter from one Doherty, superintendent of Commonwealth Pier No. 5, purporting to suspend him from office, and…
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