Patten v. California State Personnel Board

SCHOTTKY, J. pro tem.

This is an appeal from a judgment denying a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel the California State Personnel Board and California Employment Stabilization Commission to employ petitioner in the Department of Employment as a permanent civil service employee in the class of Unemployment Insurance Examiner, Grade 3.

The sole question involved in this appeal is whether the petitioner in July of 1945 received a civil service appointment on a “regular” or “permanent” basis, as he contends, or on a “duration” basis, as contended by respondents.

The facts are not substantially…