Howard v. State Board of Retirement

The petitioner contends that the Secretary of the Commonwealth has unlawfully attempted to discharge the petitioner from his office as first deputy secretary. As a member of the State employees’ retirement system in “Group A,”1 he seeks by this proceeding to compel the board to grant him a hearing in accordance with G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 32, § 16 (2), as appearing in St. 1945, c. 658, § 1, in order to determine whether his dig-charge was “justified.” The Superior Court dismissed tfie petition.

The facts appear from a case stated. The petitioner is sixty-six years of age. He was appointed second…