City of Beaumont v. Bouillion

OPINION

This is an appeal by the City of Beaumont from a lawsuit initially instituted by five plaintiffs, four of whom are former police officers and one who was active in the Beaumont Police Department at trial date. These five officers had certain rank. They sought actual and exemplary damages as well as relief under a declaratory judgment proceeding. Equitable relief by way of injunction was also sought. The trial was to a jury.

Four of the plaintiffs below, three Majors and one Captain, aver that they were wrongfully, constructively discharged by one Albert E. Haines, a former city manager…