Amaan v. City of Eureka

BARDGETT, Chief Justice.

The issue on this appeal is whether § 79.240, RSMo 1978, 1 which authorizes the mayor of a city of the fourth class, with the consent of the majority of the board of aldermen, to remove at will an appointive officer of the city violates the constitutional rights of respondents contrary to the provisions of the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment of U.S. Constitution, and Mo.Const. Art. 1, § 2, where, as here, respondents-policemen were dismissed from their employment in accordance with § 79.240.

The circuit court held § 79.240 denied respondents…