State ex rel. Hughes v. Board of Com'rs of Port of New Orleans
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Civil District Court, Parish of Orleans; Porter Parker, Judge. Application by the State, on the relation of James Hughes and Hugh Exnicios, respectively, for a writ of mandamus against the board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, to compel defendant to reinstate re-lators to positions from which they were discharged. Judgments for relators, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtO’Niebb, J.
Defendant appeals from a judgment making a writ of mandamus peremptory, commanding defendant to reinstate the relators in the positions or employment from which they were discharged, and commanding defendant to pay relators’ salaries from the time they were discharged.
Relators wore employed as clerks in the shipping or traffic department of the public *3cotton warehouse controlled by the defendant board. They had been examined and had qualified under the civil service rules of the board, in conformity with the Act 15 of the Extra Session of 1915.
The statute created a board of examiners for the…
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