State Ex Rel. Gooden v. Bonar

Haymond, Judge:

In this original mandamus proceeding, instituted in this Court June 28, 1971, the petitioner, Preston B. Gooden, seeks a writ to require the defendant, Robert L. Bonar, Superintendent of the Department of Public Safety of West Virginia, herein sometimes referred to as the Department of Public Safety or the department, to reinstate the petitioner to his position of a trooper in the Department of Public Safety and to order the payment of his salary and the restoration of other benefits to which he alleges he is entitled from the date of his dismissal by the defendant on April 24,…