Riceman v. Commissioners of Department of Public Utilities

By this petition for a writ of mandamus the petitioner seeks to compel the respondent commissioners of the department of public utilities to reinstate him in the position of administrative secretary of that department without loss of pay. The judge entered an order that the petition be dismissed. The petitioner having failed to have printed his bill of exceptions, which had been allowed, the judge reported the case for determination by this court of the correctness of his action.

The facts disclosed by the evidence set forth in the report may be summed up as follows: The petitioner, a disabled…