FINCH v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE

No. 6197.

80 Ariz. 226 (1956)

295 P.2d 846

Clarence A. FINCH, Petitioner, v. STATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE of the State of Arizona; Arizona State Board of Public Welfare; Ben Projan, Robert C. Bohannan, Jr., Alf B. Claridge, David M. Solomon, and Maria L. Urquides, Members of the State Board of Public Welfare, and Wayne B. Warrington, Commissioner of the Arizona State Department of Public Welfare, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Arizona.

March 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gust, Rosenfeld, Divelbess & Robinette, Phoenix, for petitioner.

Robert Morrison, Atty. Gen., and Ragan & Rehnquist, Phoenix, Sp. Counsel, for respondents.


LA PRADE, Chief Justice.

At the instance of petitioner, Clarence A. Finch, this court issued an alternative writ of mandamus directed to respondents compelling them to reinstate him to his position as Director of Public Welfare of Maricopa County, from which he had been involuntarily retired, or show cause for not so doing. By their response and in their briefs respondents have contended that they acted within their lawful authority in retiring petitioner and for...

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