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 why his suspension should not be made permanent. In response to this latter letter the relator appeared before the Governor, and, after certain proceedings there had, the Governor made an order removing Wehe from the office of workmen’s compensation commissioner; such order being entered on April 23, 1920. Subsequently Wehe instituted a mandamus proceeding to compel the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau to issue to him his salary warrant for the month of April, 1920. In the answer in that proceeding it was asserted as a defense that said Wehe had been suspended by the Governor on April 19, and removed on April 23. It was further alleged, as a defense in that, action, “that a voucher for plaintiff’s salary for the period of April 1 to 23, 1920, had been allowed in the sum of $159.85.” See State ex rel. Wehe v. North Dakota Compensation Bureau et al., 180 N. W. 49, 50.

In November, 1920, said Wehe applied to the district court of Burleigh county for a writ of certiorari for the purpose of reviewing the validity of the alleged removal proceedings had before the Governor. The trial court determined such proceedings, and the orders of suspension and removal entered therein by the Governor, to be irregular, illegal, and void, and entered judgment as follows:.

“It is hereby ordered and determined that the proceedings of the defendant, Lynn J. Frazier, as Governor of the state of North Dakota, had and taken in connection with the removal of the plaintiff, Laureas J. Wehe, were irregular, illegal, and void, that no evidence was given nor trial had before said defendant to justify such removal, and the same is here in all things reversed, annulled, and set aside, and that the order and determination of the suspension and removal of said plaintiff by said defendant from the office of workmen’s compensation commissioner of the state of North Dakota be, and the same is hereby, annulled, vacated, and set aside.

“And it is further ordered and adjudged and determined that the plaintiff, Laureas J. Wehe, be, and he hereby is, reinstated in his said position of workmen’s compensation commissioner of the state of North Dakota, with all the rights, privileges, and emoluments, with interest thereto pertaining, as of the 23d day of April, 1920, the date of his illegal suspension and removal, as fully as if said order of removal had never been made.”

The Governor appealed from that decision to this court. This court held that the relator had not been accorded a hearing as provided by law,