Jackson v. Keenan

The main question to be decided is the applicability and effect of Laws 1945, c. 20, entitled “An Act to Guarantee Reemployment of Veterans by Towns and Other Political Subdivisions of The State.”

Section 1 provides that “Each . . . city . . . shall reemploy a veteran . . . who has been placed on inactive status . . . and who, within ninety days after being so made inactive ... in writing, notifies the treasurer or other fiscal agent of such political subdivision that he desires to be reinstated in the position he held . . . at the time he entered said military service.” According to section 2…