Legal Opinion
Henry C. Hicks v. City of Los Angeles, a Corporation Board of Civil Service Commissioners, Etc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 6, 1957No. 15161PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHAMBERS, Circuit Judge.
Henry C. Hicks, plaintiff-appellant, is a building operating engineer who in 1951 was discharged from his position with the City of Los Angeles. He held his position under the city’s classified civil service which had the usual safeguards against arbitrary dismissals.
On the night of October 12-13, 1951, plaintiff was on duty as an engineer at the Lincoln Heights jail in Los Angeles. “Boiler trouble” developed. (We do not here reach the question of whether there was a little trouble or much trouble or whose fault it was.) The Los Angeles Board of Public Works, under…
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