State Ex Rel. Dieringer v. Bachman

Lovins, - Judge:

The purpose of this original proceeding in mandamus is to compel the mayor and city manager of the City of Wheeling to appoint a member of a civil service commission provided for in Section 2, Chapter 60, Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 1933. Relator, Harry Dier-inger, is a member of the paid fire department of the City of Wheeling. Defendants, Carl G. Bachman and C. Hal Brues, are the mayor and city manager, respectively, of said city.

The legislative intent and purpose of Chapter 60, id., is declared in Section 19 thereof, which reads, in part, as follows: “It is…