Peete v. Scheib

REGAN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Cleveland Peete, manager of the Magnolia Housing Project, and a Civil Service employee, instituted this mandamus suit endeavoring to obtain an order directing his employer, J. Gilbert Scheib, executive director of the Housing Authority of New Orleans, to pay him the sum of $6;-842.72, which represented wages lost during a period when he was illegally suspended from his position.

The defendant pleaded the exceptions of no right or cause of action, asserting that the plaintiff had failed to appeal his suspension, timely, to the Civil Service Commission. Defendant, in…