Case ID: mo_177/html/0406-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GANTT, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE ex rel. KELLER v. HAWES et al., Appellants.
    In Banc,
    November 3, 1903.
    The judgment in this case is reversed on the authority of State ex rel. Rife v. Hawes, reported at page 360 of this volume.
    Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Horn. D. D. Fisher, Judge.
    Reversed.
    
      C. W. Bates and Wm. F. Woerner for appellants.
    
      A. A. Paxson for respondent.
   GANTT, J.

Relator was appointed a patrolman on November 1, 1889, for a term of four years. He fully served that term. Thereafter he was allowed to continue to serve without any new appointment, until October 17, 1895, when he was dropped. He brings mandamus and asks for $2,083.68. His theory is that at the expiration of his appointed term, he was allowed to hold over, which was ipso facto a reappointment by implication for another term of four years. He has no case. [State ex rel. Rife v. Hawes, ante p. 360.] The circuit court gave him a peremptory writ. This was error, and its judgment is reversed, and the writ quashed.

All. concur.