Attaway v. City of Mesquite

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

GUITTARD, Chief Justice.

Ronald Attaway, a member of the Mesquite Police Department, attempted to appeal to the district court from an order of the City Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Commission sustaining the action of the Chief of Police in suspending him for a period of ten days. The trial court dismissed his attempted appeal for want of jurisdiction. On original submission, we affirmed the dismissal in an unpublished memorandum opinion on the ground, among others, that appellant had no statutory right of appeal of the Commission’s order, as held in Fox v.…