Purdie v. Detroit Police Department Trial Board

Plaintiff filed a petition for writ of mandamus in the Wayne circuit court against the De troit police department trial board, defendant, to compel a rehearing which had been denied plaintiff. The trial court granted the writ. Defendant board appeals.

Plaintiff was a sergeant in the Detroit police department; in 1940 he was indicted by the so-called Ferguson grand jury, on a charge of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and was tried in 1942 and found not guilty by the verdict of the jury in a trial in which Albert Needham and Joseph McCarty were witnesses. Subsequently and on December 16, 1942,…