SULLIVAN v. COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCE & DEVELOPMENT


351 Mass. 462 (1966)

221 N.E.2d 761

DELABARRE F. SULLIVAN vs. COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT & another (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

December 5, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred E. Nugent for the petitioners.

Edward W. Brooke, Attorney General, & Peter Roth, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the respondents.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, KIRK, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


WHITTEMORE, J.

Each petitioner sought a writ of mandamus to require the respondents as, respectively, the Commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Development of the Commonwealth and the Deputy Commissioner of that department, to reinstate him to his former position of employment. The petitioners have appealed from orders sustaining the demurrers of the respondents. There was no error.

The petitions allege provisional appointments of the petitioners...

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