Michna v. City of Houston

PEDEN, Justice.

This case originated as a mandamus action to compel the City of Houston to retroactively promote Police Department Lieutenants Miehna, Bradley, and Kersten to the position of police captain and to pay them the increased salaries they would have earned had they been promoted. A take nothing judgment rendered by the trial court on the limitation issue was appealed to this court. We held in that case, Miehna v. City of Houston, 521 S.W.2d 331 (1975, no writ), that the appellants’ action was not barred by limitation and we remanded this cause for the limited purpose of making a…