State ex rel. Polen v. Wymer

Respondent contends that (1) an appointee to the position of assistant fire chief pursuant to the civil service statutes can be removed only for cause, as provided in R. 0. 143.27, and (2) the position of assistant fire chief is not a public office subject to a writ of quo warranto.

In response to the first contention, respondent was appointed to the position of assistant fire chief on June 14, 1971, effective June 10, 1971, eleven days after relator appealed the grading to the commission.. His appointment *27was made permanent on December 15,1971, over six months after the ruling of the Civil…