Cummings v. Sharp

Thomas L. Cummings, Mayor of Nashville, filed a specification of charges before the Civil Service and Pension Board of the City of Nashville seeking the removal of Vernon H. Sharp from the office of City Tax Assessor. Among the charges preferred against Sharp was that of “pernicious political activity,’’ On the hearing, the Board found as a fact that Sharp was guilty of “pernicious political activity,” and he was ordered suspended from his office for a period of sixty days. The Board found that there was no proof to sustain the other charges contained in the specification.

No' appeal being…