Curtin v. Board of Police Commissioners

On October 14, 1918, the Board of Police Commissioners of the City and County of San Francisco dismissed the petitioner herein, Robert A. Curtin, as a member of the San Francisco police department, for disobedience of orders, to wit, failing to report for duty in compliance with the order of the Police Commissioners and his superior officers. Nearly three years thereafter, to wit, on September 24, 1921, petitioner applied for reinstatement, but his application was denied. About a year subsequent to such denial, and on August 24, 1922, he commenced this proceeding in mandavms, against said…