Conners v. City of Knoxville
Tennessee Supreme Court
PROM KNOX. Appeal from the Circnit Court of Knox County to the Court -of Civil Appeals, and hy certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals from the Supreme Court. —Yon A. HuppakeR, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Williams
This action was begun in the circuit court by a petition for a writ of certiorari, seeking to review and to quash an order or decision passed in the form of a resolution by the board of commissioners as the governing body of the city of Knoxville, which order had the effect to oust or remove petitioner from the office of chief of police of that city.
*431The petition was dismissed on the ground that Con-ners’ remedy was not by certiorari, but by appeal, and that no sufficient reason for failure to appeal was assigned in the petition.
This ruling was affirmed by the court of ’ civil appeals, and the…
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