COMMR'S OF CIVIL SERVICE v. MUNICIPAL COURT, BOSTON


359 Mass. 211 (1971)

268 N.E.2d 346

COMMISSIONERS OF CIVIL SERVICE & another vs. MUNICIPAL COURT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

April 7, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter H. Mayo, III, Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioners of Civil Service.

Henry N. Frenette, Jr., for the Mayor of Brockton.

David C. Hawkins, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Municipal Court of the City of Boston.

Herbert D. Lewis (Michael D. Zibel with him) for Robert E. Raynard.

Present: TAURO, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, SPIEGEL, & BRAUCHER, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

This petition in the county court for a writ of certiorari seeks to quash a decision of a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston reviewing action of the Civil Service Commission (the commission). The commission, after hearing, had affirmed action of the appointing authority, the mayor of Brockton, discharging Robert E. Raynard, a police officer. The Municipal Court judge concluded that the commission's action was not "justified."

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