Anderson v. City of St. Paul

*127ROGOSHESKE, JUSTICE

(dissenting).

I dissent. The majority opinion in my view interferes without justification in the authorized, required, and orderly processes of defendant city’s civil service system and is without support in the case law of this state.

As the majority indicates, it is fundamental that a provisional appointment under civil service cannot become permanent merely by lapse of time. State ex rel. Florrell v. Mangni, 230 Minn. 518, 42 N. W. 2d 529 (1950); Crnkovich v. Independent School Dist. No. 701, 273 Minn. 518,142 N. W. 2d 284 (1966). Plaintiffs herein were regularly employed…