State Ex Rel. Dewald v. Matia

By the Court.

This is an original action in mandamus in this court, wherein the relatrix prays for a writ of mandamus commanding the defendant to reinstate and restore her to the office of commissioner of cemeteries of the city of Cleveland.

The case was submitted to the court upon petition, answer, reply and stipulation of facts. It appears that the relatrix was first employed in the city cemetery department in 1900; that she took a civil service examination for that position in 1911, passed, and was placed in the classified list; that she was appointed secretary of the cemetery department in…