Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 29, 1968 (Reidy v. Acting Director of Civil Service)

The petitioner appeals from an order of the Superior Court sustaining a demurrer to her petition for a writ of certiorari. The petitioner alleges that she made the highest grade in a civil service examination for the position of “Supervisor of Appraisals” in a division of the State Department of Corporations and Taxation; that other candidates with lower grades have been appointed to the position