LaPeters v. City of Cedar Rapids

McCORMICK, Justice.

This appeal concerns procedures for discharging a police chief. On August 23, 1976, the public safety commissioner of defendant City of Cedar Rapids notified plaintiff Wallace N. LaPeters he was fired as police chief. LaPeters attempted an appeal to the City civil service commission. The commission informed him it was without jurisdiction. He then brought a declaratory judgment action in which he requested an adjudication that he was subject to discharge only through civil service procedures and that, in any event, the safety commissioner could not fire him without city…