Jellerson v. Board of Police of Biddeford

Petitions for issue of writs of certiorari.

Both actions involve identical questions of law. In each the respondents filed a special demurrer, to the overruling of which exceptions were taken. They are not presented prematurely. Tripp v. Park Street Motor Corporation, 122 Me., 59, 118 A., 793.

Of the twenty-two causes relied upon by the respondents, the sixth is the first of merit. It is that the petitioners failed to set forth in or to annex to their petitions a copy “of the proceedings wherein alleged errors of law and unlawful acts on the part of the Board of Police appear.”

“Certiorari is a…