Fox v. Piercey, Chief of the Fire Department

CROCKETT, Justice.

This appeal presents the question: Do the findings of the court below support its judgment that the resignation of the plaintiff from the Salt Lake City Fire Department was obtained by duress ? .

To answer that question, we proceed to a statement of the essential facts, then to a brief survey of the law of duress, and finally to an application of the law, to the facts.

These parties were before this court previously in a proceeding to' review the action of the Civil Service Commission of Salt Lake City in setting aside the resignation of the plaintiff, Harold Fox, from the…