Crawford v. City of Houston

COLEMAN, Chief Justice.

Glasier Crawford filed an appeal with the District Court from the action of the Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Commission of the City of Houston sustaining two disciplinary suspensions of fifteen days each issued to him by the Chief of Police of the City of Houston. The district court sustained a plea to the jurisdiction and dismissed the attempted appeal.

On March 26, 1979, appellant received two disciplinary suspensions of 15 days each. The suspensions were based on unrelated incidents and were issued in separate orders. The 15 day periods assessed were to run…