Frost v. State Personnel Board

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of Sacramento County directing the issuance of a peremptory writ requiring respondent State Personnel Board to set aside an order dismissing the appeal of petitioner Ralph W. Frost in a proceeding wherein he sought relief from board action denying him a salary increase and reclassifying him to a lower grade as a state employee with civil service status. The writ of mandate as ordered out required that the board hold further hearings in the proceeding before it and proceed to a decision upon the merits.

There are presented to us the…