People ex rel. Doherty v. Board of Police Com'rs

The relator Doherty insists that the evidence presented to the police commissioners was insufficient to sustain the findings of bribery made by them; and it becomes the duty of the court to inquire whether there was evidence tending to support the finding, and, if there was, whether there was such a preponderance of proof against the existence of such fact as would make it the duty of the court to set aside the decision as against the weight of evidence. In support of their determination, however, the court will indulge in the same presumptions that it would in support of a verdict of a jury.…