Williams v. City of Gloucester
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract to recover salary, as a police officer, from February 5 to April 9, 1887. Writ dated April 12, 1887. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., it appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was appointed a police officer of the city of Gloucester, in 1884, by the mayor and board of aldermen of that year, and continued to act as such under that appointment.
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Contract to recover salary, as a police officer, from February 5 to April 9, 1887. Writ dated April 12, 1887. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Thompson, J., it appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was appointed a police officer of the city of Gloucester, in 1884, by the mayor and board of aldermen of that year, and continued to act as such under that appointment. The defendant, for the purpose of proving that on February 5, 1887, the plaintiff had been removed from his position as a police officer by the mayor and board of aldermen then in office, introduced in evidence the…
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, C. J.
The question presented by this bill of exceptions is, whether the plaintiff, who was a police officer of the city of Gloucester, was legally removed from his office on February 1, 1887.
The charter of the city provides that “ the mayor and aider-men shall have full and exclusive power to appoint a constable or constables, and a city marshal and assistants, with the powers *259and duties of constables, and all police officers, and the same to remove at pleasure.” St. 1873, c. 246, § 11. It also provides that the mayor, whenever in his opinion the public good so requires, may “ remove, with the…
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