Klein v. Civil Service Commission of Cedar Rapids

-In this certiorari action plaintiffs, three Cedar Rapids firemen, contend an order of the Civil Service Commission sustaining their suspension by the fire chief for disobedience of departmental rules exceeds the commission’s jurisdiction or is otherwise illegal. From judgment annulling the writ and dismissing the petition at plaintiffs-’ costs, they have appealed.

*1149At the time of their disciplinary suspensions plaintiffs, Charles G. Schmitt, Donald Klein and Gordon R. Scott, were civil service employees in the Cedar Rapids fire department. They had been so employed for several years. They were…