Ward v. Richfield City

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

Richfield City has petitioned for rehearing pointing out that the court’s opinion did not cite nor rely upon Jolley v. Lindon City, Utah, 684 P.2d 47 (1984). We acknowledge our oversight. That case, too, involved the firing of the chief of police in a third class city. However, the contention there made by the appellant chief of police was that U.C.A., 1953, § 10-3-911 could not apply to him because he was discharged for investigating a city councilman in his official duties. The contention was not there made, as in the instant case, that section 10-3-911 does not in…