Hanna v. Board of Aldermen

This is a petition for a writ of certiorari for the purpose of quashing the record of the board of aider-men of the city of Pawtucket wherein said board by resolution dismissed the petitioner as chief of police and as a member of the paid police department.

The writ issued and the respondents have moved to dismiss the petition. Petitioner has been a member of the police department for twenty-one years. He was elected chief of police in November, 1932, and was removed by the board of aldermen May 3, 1934, after a hearing and a determination that the proof of two of the charges on which he was…