State Ex Rel. Jones v. City of Nashville

This ease comes to us on a petition for writ of error from a decree rendered against the appellant Jones by the Chancellor approximately a year before the petition was filed here. In the case in the Chancery Court the Chancellor dismissed the appellant’s petition for a writ of mandamus because the appellant had not exhausted his administrative remedies before applying to the court for such a writ.

The writ sought to have the relator (appellant) put back in his former position with the City as Auditor of Purchases with a civil service status, and that his name be placed upon the payroll dating…