Younts v. City of North Little Rock

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

In 1983 the Mayor and City Council of North Little Rock were having numerous differences with William Younts, the Chief of Police. The City Council wanted to replace Younts, the appellant, and, in an effort to do so, passed Ordinance 5554 on July 26, 1983. The ordinance was an offer of settlement in which the City, the appellee, agreed to pay appellant “all the normal retirement benefits that any employee of the City of North Little Rock would expect to receive upon his retirement which include accumulated vacation pay, accumulated sick pay and discretionary days.”…