City of Laredo v. Guerrero

OPINION

CADENA, Chief Justice.

Appellant, City of Laredo, appeals from a judgment of the trial court reversing the order of the Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Commission of the City of Laredo *582and ordering that appellee Gustavo Guerrero, be reinstated as a policeman of such City and be paid back pay. We affirm.

On March 24, 1980, appellee was indefinitely suspended from the Laredo Police Department by Victor L. Garcia, Chief of Police. In an attempt to comply with the Civil Service statute, Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1269m § 16 (Vernon 1963), a written statement of the reasons for the…