
    STATE EX REL. FREDERICK D. STANTON v. ST. PAUL FIRE DEPARTMENT RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
    
    November 30, 1928.
    No. 26,974.
    Case followed.
    On authority of the Williams case, an inspector of buildings who is exposed to the hazards of a fireman is entitled to membership in the fire relief association of the St. Paul fire department. [Reporter]
    St. Paul Fire Department Belief Association appealed from a judgment of mandamus of the district court for Bamsey county, Bechhoefer, J. directing it to accept relator’s application for membership therein.
    Affirmed, following State ex rel. Williams v. St. Paul F. D. Belief Assn. 175 Minn. 600, 222 N. W. 283.
    
      Arthur A. Stewart and Eugene M. O’Neill, for appellant (respondent below).
    
      O’Brien, Horn & S tyring er, for respondent (relator below).
    
      
      Reported in 222 N. W. 284.
    
   Per Curiam.

Eespondent appealed from a judgment directing the issuance of a writ of mandamus requiring it to receive the relator into membership.

The relator serves in the “Fire Prevention Service” in the city of St. Paul. His duties require him to inspect buildings for the purpose of preventing fires and also to inspect and examine buildings in which fires have occurred (frequently before the fire has been extinguished) for the purpose of ascertaining the cause or origin of such fires. His duties require technical knowledge. He is required to obey orders of the fire chief and comply with the rules of the fire department and to be present at fires and take such part in fighting fires as he may be ordered to do. He is exposed to the hazards of a fireman. With the exception of this statement, relator is in substantially the same situation in reference to respondent as was the relator in State ex rel. Williams v. St. Paul F. D. Relief Assn. 175 Minn. 600, 222 N. W. 283, and upon authority of that case the judgment herein is affirmed.

Stone and Hilton, JJ. took no part.  