State Ex Rel. Dwyer v. City of Middletown

This is an appeal by relator-appellant, Russell L. Dwyer, from the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County which dismissed his complaint for a writ of mandamus against the respondent-appellee, the city of Middletown.

The record before this court indicates that appellant, a career police officer, had been the chief of police for appellee for twelve years when, on the morning of June 15,1987, he was summoned to the office of the then city manager William Burns and informed, in the presence of two police sergeants, that charges had been filed against him. He was immediately…