Legal Opinion
City of Meridian v. Davidson
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 14, 1951No. 37905Published
1Opinion of the Court
211 Miss. 683 (1951)
53 So.2d 48
CITY OF MERIDIAN
v.
DAVIDSON.
No. 37905.
Supreme Court of Mississippi, In Banc.
May 14, 1951.
Dunn & Singley, for appellant.
Gerald Adams and M.V.B. Miller, for appellee.
McGehee, C.J.
This appeal presents the unique, or rather incongruous, problem of whether a jury in the circuit court can intelligently determine when a civil service commission of a municipality has acted in "good faith for cause" in discharging a member of its fire department, where the jury does not have before it the same evidence on which the commission acted, but hears additional testimony on the…
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