State ex rel. Thurmond v. City of Shreveport
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from First Judicial District Court,.’ Parish of Caddo.; Thomas Fletcher Bell, Judge. Mandamus, on the relation of T. H. Thurmond, against the Oity of Shreveport. From the judgment, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtProvo Sty, J.
The relator alleges that the city council, desiring to remove him without cause from the office of city auditor, first passed an ordinance expressly so providing, and then, on discovering that it had no right to do so, recalled the ordinance, and immediately proceeded to do by indirection what it could not do directly, namely, to pass another ordinance making the office undesirable to any one competent to fill it, thereby practically abolishing it. This it did by reducing the salary of the office from $1,500 to $300 a year, and delegated to the mayor the power to designate what hours -the…
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