Willens v. Personnel Board

CAVE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Jackson County affirming the order of the Personnel Board which sustained the discharge of the appellant as a Senior Liquor Investigator of the Department of Liquor Control of Kansas City.

Hereafter, the Personnel Board will be referred to as the “board”, and L. P. Cook-ingham as “city manager”.

On January 9, 1953, Fred R. Johnson, Director of Liquor Control (hereafter referred to as “director”), and appellant’s superior officer, discharged him for “re*667fusal to follow instructions”. Thereafter, appellant filed a…