City of Tuscaloosa v. Marcum

SIMPSON, Justice.

The appellees in this case filed a bill for declaratory judgment in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County on behalf of the named appellee and forty-three members of the Police Department of the City of Tuscaloosa, seeking a declaratory judgment as to the rights and status of the parties as established by the Civil Service law pertaining to the City of Tuscaloosa and rules and regulations adopted by the Civil Service Board in accordance with that law.

The bill alleged that local Act No. 249 passed by the legislature in 1947 created a Civil Service System including a Civil…