People ex rel. Skilton v. Smith

The relator, a veteran volunteer fireman, seeks reinstatement to the position of assistant engineer in the department of water supply, gas and electricity. He is one of a number of employees dismissed or suspended from service on December 31, 1914, in consequence of a reduction of the force of employees in that department.

*133Relator’s principal grievance, urged in Ms brief, seems to be that some of the duties performed by him were, in the redistribution of his work, necessitated by the abolishment of his position, assigned to Elmer G. Manahan, a division engineer, in charge of the division of…