Johnson v. Priest

BRADY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court reversing an administrative determination by the Board of Police Commissioners of the City of St. Louis dismissing the respondent from the Police Department for cause. We will refer to the respondent by that designation and to the Board of Police Commissioners as “the board.”

The circuit court’s judgment was responsive to plaintiff’s petition for review. The record brought to the circuit court from the board consists of the following: the charges and specifications made by the department against the plaintiff; the…