State Ex Rel. Powell v. Bowen

— The relator brought this action in mandate to compel the board of public safety of the city of Fort Wayne to reinstate him as a member of the police department as of May 29, 1928. The complaint was filed in 1935. It alleges that the relator was employed as a police office in November, 1919, and that he served continuously until May 29, 1928, and at the latter date he was traffic sergeant; that at that time, when he was on a “leave of absence traveling through a great number of western cities studying and analyzing traffic conditions and problems,” he was discharged and dismissed, and that…