Handlon v. Wolff

This is an appeal by defendants from an order of the superior court granting a petition for a writ of mandate compelling the civil service commissioners of the City and County of San Francisco to admit the petitioner, J. H. Handlon, to an office designated as “G 102 Claims Agent Municipal Railway.”

Preliminarily it may be stated that the municipality, the operator of a street railway system under a city and county freeholder’s charter provision, purchased a privately owned competitive company to be operated in conjunction with the municipally owned railway. Since the effective date of the…