Dejnozka v. City of Saratoga Springs

OPINION OF THE COURT

Memorandum.

The judgment of the Appellate Division should be affirmed, with costs, for the reasons stated in the memorandum below. We would add that although the charges preferred against petitioner chiefly concerned disobedience of the Commissioner’s departmental policy, the Commissioner was not obliged to disqualify himself as the hearing officer. The Commissioner had no particular knowledge of material disputed facts. Whether the actual order petitioner disobeyed originated from *950the Commissioner before being spoken by petitioner’s superior officer is immaterial.…