IANNELLE v. FIRE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON


331 Mass. 250 (1954)

118 N.E.2d 757

VINCENT J. IANNELLE vs. FIRE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 31, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence F. O'Donnell, (Channing R. Coveney with him,) for the petitioner.

Harris A. Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General, for the respondent civil service commission.

William D. Quigley, Assistant Corporation Counsel, for the respondent fire commissioner.

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


SPALDING, J.

The petitioner was a lieutenant in the fire department of the city of Boston. On January 9, 1953, after a hearing before the then fire commissioner (the respondent Kelleher), on charges of misconduct while on duty, he was dismissed from the service.1 Alleging that the dismissal was improper because of bad faith on the part of Kelleher in conducting the hearing, the petitioner brings...

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