Frye v. Civil Service Commission

Opinion by

Judge Craig,

John Frye, a Philadelphia police officer, and the Philadelphia Civil Service Commission have cross-appealed a 1987 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia which purported to modify an unappealed 1984 order of that court, which had reversed a 1982 commission decision dismissing the officer and had ordered that he be reinstated in his police officer position and receive “all backpay and other emoluments which shall have accrued to him.”

The unfortunate history of this case is complicated by a number of errors.

*157The Philadelphia Civil Service Commissions decision…