Loftus v. Carbondale

Opinion by

Watkins, J.,

This is an appeal from a judgment entered, in an action of assumpsit, in the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County, in favor of the City of Carbondale, the defendant-appellee, and against William J. Loftus, a civil service employee, the plaintiff-appellant, who brought the suit for wages alleged to be due him because of an unwarranted suspension.

Carbondale is a city of the third class in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Its fire department is *54made up of volunteer firemen but it has some paid firemen, including the appellant herein. On November 18, 1959, the…