Glendinning v. Curry

BROWN, J.:

This is an appeal from an order of the Circuit Court of Dade County granting a motion to quash an alternative writ of mandamus. This order raises a question concerning the authority of the City Manager of Miami to order a merger of the position of superintendent of nurses of the Jackson Memorial Hospital, a City Hospital, with another “office,” thus depriving Miss Glendinning, the appellant here, of her position as Superintendent of Nurses.

The petition for the alternative writ, to be directed to the City Manager and to the Superintendent of the Hospital, alleged that the petitioner…