Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 1, 1906 (Lahar v. Eldridge)

Knoweton, C. J.

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the mayor, the board of aldermen and the chief of police of the city of Taunton, to recognize the petitioner as a member of the police force of that city, and to restrain the respondent Coyle from acting as a police officer in the place of the petitioner.