Ash v. Board of Civil Service Commissioners

— On the.21st day of April, 1932, E. C. Ash, the plaintiff-appellee, was appointed by the commissioner of finance, Mrs. Francette Miller, to the position of janitor in the City Hall of the city of Des Moines, in place of Matthew Tillman, who had held the position of janitor in the City Hall for twelve years, having been appointed to that office in 1920 by the then commissioner of finance. The appellee’s appointment was unanimously approved and ratified by the city council, and said Tillman was dismissed from service. Subsequent to his discharge, the said Matthew Tillman appealed from the…