Reiger v. City of Seattle

— Defendants’ motion for summary judgment having been granted, plaintiff appeals from a judgment dismissing her action.

Plaintiff has been a full-time provisional police matron of the city of Seattle since December 28, 1953. Although the position is classified under the city’s civil service system, she was not required to take a civil service examination until April 8,1958.

Plaintiff passed the written and physical examinations, but failed the oral examination. She protested to the civil service commission the “evaluation and grade given” her by the examiners and the “composition of the…