Colligan v. Williams

This is an application for a peremptory or an alternative writ of mandamus for the reinstatement of petitioner in his position of inspector of meters and water consumption in the department of Water supply, gas and electricity, a position in the competitive class, from which he was dismissed or suspended on February 1, 1915, on the ostensible ground of lack of work. He claims that his dismissal was in bad faith, and the chief reason which he alleges in support of this contention is that work of the same nature he had been doing was afterward carried on by others already in the department.

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