Munds v. Superintendent of Streets

This case is before us upon exceptions to the order of a single justice that a writ of mandamus issue requiring the respondents to restore the petitioner to employment as tool fixer in the street department of the city of New Bedford, and to his refusal to grant the following requests:

“1. That registration is an essential prerequisite for civil service employment.

“2. That for the reason that petitioner was not holding employment in the ‘classified civil service’ the provisions of the civil service law, in respect to removals, cannot be invoked for the benefit of this petitioner since he is…