Glenn v. Chambers

This certiorari action involves the legality of the action of defendant city council of Des Moines, affirmed by defendant civil service commission, in summarily removing plaintiff-Glenn as sanitary inspector in the city’s health department for the assigned reason that his appointment violated soldiers’ preference rights to the position of one Rank under section 365.10, Codes, 1946, 1950,' I.C.A. (Unless otherwise stated all Code references are to- these three Codes.)

Only law questions are presented. The facts are not in dispute and consist mainly of matters agreed to upon plaintiff’s appeal…