Kennett v. Barber

TERRELL, J.:

Pursuant to Chapter 18696, Special Acts of 1937, the City of Miami Beach promulgated regulations governing the behavior of civil service employees of the City, one of which authorized the removal of any employee “guilty of conduct unbecoming an employee of the City.”

Appellee was a member of the Fire Department. The City Manager and the Chief of the Fire Department being authorized to remove members of the department for infractions of the quoted regulations, removed appellee on the charge that “on April 21, 1946, at about the hour of 6 o’clock P. M. at or near 411 Michigan Avenue,…