Selectmen of Wakefield v. Judge of First District Court of Eastern Middlesex

Rugg, G.J.

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari. Its object is to set aside a decision rendered by the respondent upon a petition for review under § 42B, added to G. L. c. 31 by St. 1923, c. 242, § 1, whereby the action of the selectmen of the town of Wakefield in removing a police officer of that town from the police force was set aside. The return of the respondent sets forth the extended record of the petition for review. It there appears that at the hearing upon said petition,' ‘ Both parties introduced the testimony of witnesses, and by agreement of counsel the stenographic record…