MOORE v. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION


333 Mass. 430 (1956)

131 N.E.2d 179

FREDERICK R. MOORE vs. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 5, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh Morton, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent.

Richard S. McCabe, for the petitioner.

Present: QUA, C.J., WILKINS, SPALDING, WILLIAMS, & COUNIHAN, JJ.


SPALDING, J.

The material averments in this petition for a writ of certiorari are these. The petitioner for many years has been employed as an instructor in the textile shop of the Massachusetts Reformatory, a position within the classified civil service of the Commonwealth. On May 8, 1954, he, with seven others, took a competitive promotional examination for the position of assistant industrial shop manager of the reformatory. On July 7, 1954, the petitioner was...

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