Smith v. Board of Fire & Police Commissioners

Plaintiff Robert Smith appeals from an order dismissing his complaint against defendant Board of Fire and Police Commissioners of the Village of Brookfield (Board) and other individually named defendants associated with that body. The complaint was for judicial review of the Board’s decision not to reconsider his resignation from the Brookfield police department. He had submitted his resignation three years earlier when he was indicted for the murder of his wife, a charge of which he was later acquitted.

On appeal, plaintiff argues that the trial court erred in dismissing his complaint (1)…