City of Muncie v. State Ex Rel. Walling

This was an action for mandate brought in the name of the State of Indiana by appellees herein as relators to compel appellants to perform certain duties imposed upon them by statute.

It appears that relators were firemen in the city of Muncie, Indiana, and that in January, 1930, they were orally dismissed as such fireman by the mayor and board of safety of said city. That said relators brought suit in mandate in the Superior Court of Delaware County, to compel the board of public safety of the city of Muncie through its members to reinstate them and to place the names of said relators on the…