Jones v. Carter

Wille C. Jones filed a petition for a writ of mandamus requesting the trial court to compel Beryl T. Carter, Director of Personnel for the City of Richmond; Jack W. Fulton, the City’s Director of Public Safety; and Frank S. Duling, the City’s Chief of Police (collectively, the officials), to promote Jones to the rank of captain in the City’s Bureau of Police, retroactive to December 31, 1983, and to compensate him with back pay from that date. The City’s Personnel Board (the Board) had ordered such relief for Jones. The trial court, adopting the officials’ contention that the Board’s order…