King v. Mayor of Butte

Plaintiff, formerly a police officer of the city of Butte, was charged before the examining and trial board of the police department of that city with being intoxicated while on duty. The board, after trial and hearing on June 3Q, 1922, found him guilty as charged' and the day following the mayor approved the findings and dismissed him from the police force. Within sixty days he sought reinstatement, by instituting proceedings in mandamus directed against the mayor, upon whose application the proceedings were later dismissed. Thereafter, on November 25, 1922, he filed an action in the…