HUNTER v. McLAUGHLIN

No. 14090.

252 F.2d 857 (1958)

Earl R. HUNTER, Appellant, v. Robert E. McLAUGHLIN et al., Commissioners of the District of Columbia, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 27, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Everett L. Edmond, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Mr. Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel for the District of Columbia, with whom Messrs. Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Andrew G. Conlyn, Asst. Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellees.

Before FAHY, WASHINGTON and DANAHER, Circuit Judges.


WASHINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit against the Commissioners of the District of Columbia praying for a judgment directing them to appoint the plaintiff-appellant to the Metropolitan Police Department, or for other appropriate relief. The case comes to us on appeal from an order of the District Court dismissing the complaint, on motion of the defendants-appellees, on the ground that it failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.

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