Nixon v. City of Houston

J. CURTISS BROWN, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment upholding the dismissal of the appellant from the Houston Police Department.

Kenneth L. Nixon (Nixon or appellant) was suspended indefinitely from his position as a captain in the Houston Police Department on November 19, 1975. R. J. Clark, the Acting Chief of Police at that time, suspended Nixon by sending a letter to the Houston Firemen’s and Policemen’s Civil Service Commission (Commission), and by mailing a copy to Nixon in accordance with Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 1269m, § 16 (1963). In the letter, Chief Clark outlined the…