Jones v. Bayless

Defendants in error, Tulsa city policemen with ranks and grades varying from sergeants to captains, commenced this action as plaintiffs to restrain and enjoin plaintiffs in error, as defendants, from demoting them to other policemen’s positions of inferior rank with attendant reductions in salary, responsibility and dignity.

The threatened demotions were to be made without regard to said plaintiffs’ “good behavior”, without notice and hearing, not for economic or financial reasons, not for the purpose of reducing the number of policemen in the department, nor to reduce the number of positions…