Krohn

The appeal herein is predicated upon the following facts: Plaintiff, who was a civil service employee of the city of Los Angeles, was discharged for alleged insubordination. Thereafter plaintiff duly filed a request with the board of civil service commissioners of said city “for an investigation of this case,” in pursuance of which one of the members of the said board who had been delegated to perform such duty, after inquiry regarding the circumstances surrounding the discharge of plaintiff, filed with said commission his report to which were attached several affidavits purporting to deal with the situation. Thereupon the said board of civil service commissioners considered said report and adopted a motion, the effect of which was that the discharge of plaintiff was not sustained and that plaintiff should be restored to duty. The department of the city of Los Angeles in which plaintiff was employed having refused to conform to such finding and order by the Civil Service Commission, on application for writ of mandate, it was ordered and adjudged by the superior court that plaintiff be reinstated in his said position with the city of Los Angeles, pending which plaintiff be paid his…