State Ex Rel. Strait v. Brooks

— This is a mandamus suit begun in the circuit court of the city of St. Louis, in which relator seeks to compel the appellants, officers of the municipality of the city of St. Louis, to reinslate him to the position of clerk in the street department of said city and to compel the payment of his salary as such clerk since June 16, 1924. The lower court issued its alternative writ of mandamus; there was a final hearing, and a peremptory writ of mandamus was issued in which the officers of the city were directed to rescind their action in transferring another employee to the place theretofore…