Palmer v. Wolff

Plaintiffs, Palmer and Cane, appeal from a judgment denying their petition for a writ of mandate to restore them to their civil service positions with the city of San Francisco. Petitioners had been employees of the Market Street Railway Company and were duly blanketed into the civil service of the city under section 125 of the charter when the city acquired the railway on September 29, 1944. Both were replaced after having reached the age of 70, the age of compulsory retirement under section 165(b) of the charter—Palmer on June 19, 1946, by a certified qualified civil service employee, Cane…