Board of Jury Commissioners, Orleans Parish v. Goins

COLE, Judge.

The issue presented here is whether or not the Civil Service Commission erred in ruling the appointing authority failed to prove the employee, Sheryl Goins, orally resigned from her position as a clerk-typist II with the Orleans Parish Board of Jury Commissioners. Because we find the Commission did commit manifest error, we reverse.

At the hearing on the matter the testimony was conflicting. The Director of the Jury Commissioners, Mr. Earl Duplantier, testified he and Ms. Goins had become involved in an argument in his office on April 1,1980. At that time she allegedly told Mr.…