Gaul v. Philadelphia

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Chidsey,

• . In these three actions of mandamus the City of Philadelphia and certain of its officers joined as defendants, ¿ppeai from the several judgments entered on the pleadings ordering reinstatement of the respective plaintiffs to positions in the City government from *496which they had been dismissed. The cases were argued together in the court below which rendered an opinion in one case (the Jennings case) which was made applicable to the others. The cases were similarly argued together in this Court and all of them will be considered and determined in this opinion.

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