People ex rel. Williams v. Zucca

The respondent has charged the relator with incompetency, incapacity, neglect of duty and unfitness to hold *261the office of coroner’s physician, to which position he was appointed hy the respondent on January 1, 1898, and this application is made to prohibit the respondent from proceeding with the trial of such charges. Respondent insists that he not only may proceed to try the charges preferred, but that he has the right to remove the relator at his pleasure, without assigning any cause whatever, and threatens to do so. While the term of the relator was not expressly fixed by statute, yet in…