Clark v. City of Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, alleging, that the plaintiff was a veteran employed by the city of Boston under St. 1896, c. 517 as a plumber and that thereafter the defendant unlawfully ceased and refused so to employ him.
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Contract, alleging, that the plaintiff was a veteran employed by the city of Boston under St. 1896, c. 517 as a plumber and that thereafter the defendant unlawfully ceased and refused so to employ him. Writ dated October 14, 1899. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Hardy,-J., without a jury, there was evidence that the plaintiff was a veteran of the war of the rebellion ; that he was registered in the office of the civil service commissioners at the State House as a plumber; that the repair division of the public buildings department of the city of Boston on or before March 3,1898,…
1Opinion of the CourtHolmes, C. J.
The plaintiff is a veteran who, we assume, has worked as a plumber in the repairs division of the public buildings department of the city of Boston. He brings this action for a failure to employ him, when there was work to do, in preference to another man not a veteran, to whom work was given. The right of action is supposed to spring from St. 1896, e. 517, § 5, forbidding the removal or suspension except after hearing of any “ veteran holding an office or employment in the public service of any city or town.”
Technically the questions sought to be argued are cut off by the finding of the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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