City of San Antonio v. Kneupper

On Motion for Rehearing.

We adhere to our original opinion that the action of the City in attempting to abolish the positions of appellees in the Police Department of the City of San Antonio, and supplant them by engaging other persons to perform the same service in the department is illegal and void. However, we have reached the conclusion that we were in error in our holding that the ap-*210pellees are entitled to the classification of Patrolmen in the Police Department and entitled to judgment for back salary as such. In our original opinion we proceeded upon the erroneous assumption that the…