Healey v. Jones

Eagen, J.,

— Petitioner, John Healey, seeks a writ of alternative mandamus directing his reinstatement to a position in the office of City Council of the City of Scranton. Defendants filed a motion asking that the writ be quashed. A motion to quash a writ of mandamus is the equivalent of a demurrer and admits all well-pleaded allegations: Bragg v. Swarthmore School District et al., 337 Pa. 363. The sole question for decision, therefore, is whether the averments, when liberally construed and taken as true, constitute a basis for granting relief. What then are the allegations of the petition in…