In Re Appeal of Prezkop

Browning, Judge:

This is an appeal from a final order of the Ohio County Circuit Court sustaining the action of the Police Civil Service Commission and the City Manager of the City of Wheeling dismissing appellant, Leonard A. Prezkop, after approximately fourteen years’ service as a police officer for the City of Wheeling.

The case arose in the following manner: On December 31, 1967, about 4:00 a.m., Prezkop and another officer, Willard Jarrett, arrived at the scene of a fire in an area which they were patrolling. The fire resulted in the deaths of seven young children, with only one…