Saunders v. City of Dearborn

Defendant, City of Dearborn, appeals from an order of April 16, 1980, denying its motion for new trial and affirming an earlier order of declaratory judgment entered on June 4, 1979, in the Wayne County Circuit Court which held that plaintiff, Mark L. Saunders, was a permanent, not a probationary, employee at the time of the termination of his employment with defendant’s police department. Defendant was also ordered to reinstate plaintiff as a permanent employee.

Plaintiff was hired by defendant as a police officer on August 3, 1976. At that time, a certain collective bargaining agreement,…