State Ex Rel. Ball v. City of Knoxville

This is a mandamus suit by which Stella Ball, relator, for several years an employee of the City of Knoxville until her discharge on September 15, 1939, seeks to be restored as an employee of said City; or, in the alternative, to recover the alleged salary due her. Her petition was demurred to by the City and the other defendants, the demurrers sustained,' and her - suit dismissed. The case is in this Court upon her appeal in the nature of a writ of error.

Belator was first employed on January 22, 1936, as secretary to the City Manager at a salary of $145 per month, which position she held…