Bugbee v. Kimmich

OPINION OE THE COURT BY

STAINBACK, J.

The petitioner-appellee was employed by the Territorial Hospital, of the Department of Institutions, of the Territory of Hawaii, as a psychiatric social worker on June 1, 1949. In July of 1953 the medical director of the hospital and the director of the department of institutions discussed the employment of appellee and it was decided by both officers that the appellee should be given an opportunity to resign and, upon failure thereof, she would be dismissed. Appellee refusing to resign, she was given a writ*123ten notice of dismissal signed by the medical…