Jones v. O'Toole

This is a proceeding in mandamus to compel the respondents, as members of the Civil Service Commission of the city and county of San Francisco, to restore the petitioner to his alleged proper rank on the eligible list of patrolmen eligible for promotion to the position of corporal in the police department and to certify him to the police commission of said city and county of San Francisco ■for promotion to the position of corporal in the police service of said city.

The Board of Civil Service Commissioners, on August 3, 1920, made a list of persons eligible fof promotion to the office of…