Nottingham v. City of Yukon

KAUGER, Justice,

with whom DOOLIN, Chief Justice joins dissenting.

There are three kinds of authority under which a city manager may settle and compromise an employee’s claim for wrongful demotion — express, implied and apparent authority. Because the city was estopped to deny the appearance of authority with which it cloaked the city manager to settle and compromise the employee’s claim, a more detailed discussion of the facts is necessitated.

Charles Nottingham, (employee/appellee) was employed by the City of Yukon as a captain in the fire department. In March, 1981, he was demoted from the…