MacK v. Civil Service Commission

OPINION BY

Judge LEADBETTER.

This case raises the question of whether the Philadelphia Civil Service Commission (Commission) has jurisdiction to enforce agreements made by parties to settle prior actions before the Commission. In this case, the Commission held that it had no such authority. On appeal, common pleas ordered the settlement enforced and ordered the payment of money taken in breach of the agreement. This is an appeal by the City of Philadelphia (City) from that order.

Unfortunately, neither the Commission nor common pleas took any testimony, so our understanding of the factual…