Connor v. Ricks, Mayor

Griffin Smith, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from Chancery Court’s refusal to enjoin Hot Springs officials from paying public funds to George Callahan as Chief of Police, and to restrain Callahan from receiving snch payments. The legal question is whether Callahan’s appointment was valid.

The petition alleges that Leland Leatherman, G. C. Smith, and Herbert Brenner, as a Board of Civil Service Commissioners, proceeded in an illegal manner April 26, 1948, when Callahan was selected, in that they disregarded mandatory provisions of Civil Service Rules, and Act 28, approved February 13, 1933.

Act…