State Ex Rel. Palm v. City of Brazil

Two of relators were formerly policemen and three were firemen in the City of Brazil, Indiana, and filed this action against the appellees, alleging that they had been unlawfully dismissed as policemen and firemen respectively and asking that appellees be mandated to re-instate them and to pay them their salaries as such for each month since the date of their alleged wrongful dismissal. '

In the complaint it was alleged that each of the relators had been duly appointed as a city policeman or fireman, and was serving as such on August 1, 1945, when he was dismissed without cause and without the…