McCutcheon v. MacNeill

Grice, Justice.

Ordinarily under the general law, deputy sheriffs are the employees of the sheriff,.and subject to be discharged by the latter. Drost v. Robinson, 194 Ga. 703 (22 S. E. 2d, 475). It is the insistence of the plaintiff in error, however, that under the provisions of the act approved March 15, 1943, entitled “An act to create a Civil Service Board in Fulton County,” (Ga. L. 1943, p. 971 et seq.), she was under the classified service, and therefore the sheriff had no right to remove her. This contention is based on the language of the first portion of section 5, subhead 2 of that…