Pryzbylowski v. Board of Commissioners of the Poor
Michigan Supreme Court
Certiorari to Wayne; Murphy, J. Mandamus by Felix J. Pryzbylowski against the Board of Commissioners of the Poor of the city of Detroit and others, to require the respondent to reinstate relator as city physician and for other relief. From an order granting the writ, respondents bring certiorari.
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Certiorari to the circuit court for the county of Wayne. As stated by counsel for respondents and appellants, the sole question here presented is whether or not the board of poor commissioners of the city of Detroit is, by reason of the functions it performs, a State agency, and therefore not subject to the civil-service amendment to the charter of the city of Detroit in the choice of and the discharge of its subordinates.
Relator was a city physician, who had been appointed to such position by the board of poor commissioners previous to the passage of the civil-service amendment of the…
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