Hall v. Protan

Sprouse, Judge:

In each of these three proceedings in mandamus instituted in this Court pursuant to its original jurisdiction, each of the relators seeks to require the respondents John Protan, Sheriff of Boone County, The Boone County Civil Service Commission and its members, Jerry Cook, Gus Shaffer, and E. W. Richards to reinstate each of the relators to the position of Deputy Sheriff of Boone County.

Although some of the facts are in dispute and vary in each case, the legal questions involved are substantially identical. Counsel, by agreement and with the consent of this Court, combined the…