Kone v. Baltimore County

The appellant Kone seeks to reverse administrative action of Baltimore County, upheld by the Circuit Court, in dismissing him for cause from his position as Lieutenant in the County police force and in thereafter refusing him the pension which some twenty years of service normally would have given him.

At the scene of a motor vehicle accident on February 5, 1962, Kone, the senior officer present, accepted the suggestion of a fireman that he take as his own a one hundred fifty pound side of beef which had fallen from a truck overturned in the accident. Kone had two probationary police officers…