Anderson v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners

The substance of the charge laid against appellee, and for which he was removed from the police force, was his alleged failure to properly take care of his financial obligations. These consisted of debts owing at the time he came on the police force, September 16, 1933, and others since contracted. The evidence discloses the practice, on the part of some merchants and other classes of creditors in Des Moines, Iowa, of using tbe police department as a sort of collecting agency for delinquent accounts against members of the police force in an effort to impound the officer’s wages. This was true…