State ex rel. Nelson v. Henry

The position of the relator is that he was a duly and permanently appointed and qualified deputy oil inspector under the civil service'law on October 31, 1933; that at that time the state treasurer discharged him for the expressed reason that the department was reorganized; that the civil service law provides that an officer permanently appointed to a position under that law cannot be removed “except for just cause which shall not be religious or political;” that the reason for the attempt to remove him was political; *84and that the attempted discharge was illegal and he is entitled to…