Armbruster v. City of Middletown

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Common Pleas Court finding that the cause of' removal of the plaintiff as a police officer of the city of' Middletown was insufficient and for that reason setting aside the finding of the civil service commission of the city, affirming-the action of the commission of the city, dismissing the plaintiff from his office.

The record shows that the plaintiff had been a member of the police department for ten years on September 23, 1942, when the chain of incidents, which was the predicate for his removal, began shortly after four o’clock in the morning. He…