City of San Antonio v. Whitten

MURRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by Jesse F. Whitten and eleven other employees in the Police Department of the City of San Antonio, seeking a mandamus requiring the City and the Chief of Police to reinstate each plaintiff in the class and service in the Police Department occupied by him as of August 22, 1957, and to compensate each at the rate of pay he was receiving immediately prior thereto. The trial court granted the writ as prayed for and awarded each plaintiff back salary in an amount equal to that which he would have received up to the time of the judgment, based on the…