Barnes v. Mayor of Chicopee
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed on June 3, 1912, for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent Rivers, as the mayor of Chicopee, to reinstate the petitioner as city marshal in place of the respondent Walsh. The case was heard by Hammond, J., who ruled that a writ of mandamus should issue, and at the request of the respondent Rivers reported the case for determination by the full court.
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Petition, filed on June 3, 1912, for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondent Rivers, as the mayor of Chicopee, to reinstate the petitioner as city marshal in place of the respondent Walsh. The case was heard by Hammond, J., who ruled that a writ of mandamus should issue, and at the request of the respondent Rivers reported the case for determination by the full court. St. 1911, c. 468, of which the title is stated in the opinion, is as follows: “Section 1. The provisions of chapter nineteen of the Revised Laws, entitled ‘Of the Civil Service’, and all acts in amendment thereof and in…
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C. J.
This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to reinstate the petitioner in the office of city marshal of the city of Chicopee. The petitioner was appointed to that office in January, 1911, and served until February 15, 1912, when after a hearing he was removed by the respondent Rivers, who was mayor of the city of Chicopee. The petitioner within ten days thereafter brought a petition in the Police Court of Chicopee praying that the action of the mayor be reviewed, upon which it was found that the order of the mayor removing the petitioner was without proper cause, and it was reversed and the…
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