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48 NORTH DAKOTA REPORTS

an order for judgment, and judgment was entered thereon, as follows:

“Now, therefore, on motion of L. J. Wehe and Theodore Koffel, of Bismarck, N. D., attorneys for the plaintiff, Laureas J. Wehe, as commissioner of the North Dakota Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, it is hereby adjudged and determined that all 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 and are irregular, illegal, and void, and that no evidence was given nor trial had before said defendant to justify such suspension and removal, and that the same be and hereby is in all things reversed, annulled, and set aside, and that the order of suspension and the order of the removal and the determination of the suspension and removal of said plaintiff by said defendant from the office of commissioner of the Workmen’s Compensation Bureau of the state of North Dakota, be, and the same is hereby, in all things annulled, vacated, and set aside, the same as if no proceedings for the suspension and removal of the plaintiff had ever been commenced.

“And it is further adjudged, determined, and decreed that the plaintiff, Laureas J. Wehe, be, and he hereby is, reinstated in his said position as commissioner of the North Dakota Workmen’s Compensation Bureau, with all the rights, privileges, and emoluments, with interest thereto pertaining, as of the 23d day of April, 1920, the date his illegal suspension was made permanent and absolute, and the date the illegal order of removal was made therein, as fully as if no order of suspension and order of removal hag. ever been made therein, save and except as to any questions of law involved between the plaintiff, Laureas J. Wehe, as de jure commissioner, and one C. A. M. Spencer, as the de facto commissioner, which are collateral to the present inquiry; and that this judgment extends only to the restitution of the plaintiff herein, as commissioner de jure, that is, the legal and lawful commissioner, with the right and title in him to said office, the same as if no order of suspension and order of removal had ever been made; and the judgment heretofore entered, excepting said modifications, be, and the same hereby is, in all things adjudged, reinstated, affirmed, and determined.”

The defendant moved to have this judgment amended by striking therefrom all references to the order of suspension; the contention being that the former decision of this court merely adjudged the order of removal to be invalid, and did not in any manner adjudicate with respect