People ex rel. Davidson v. Williams

It seems to me that the only question involved in this matter is one of law, to wit, whether a veteran volunteer fireman is entitled to preference in retention in his employment as one of a class — one of a number of laborers — when there is a general reduction in the force for reasons of economy. That is, whether in reducing the force, those laborers who are not veterans should be discharged first. If there is such a preference, the relator should be restored to his employment, because it is conceded that the reduction in the force of laborers having been made, the relator is out of work,…