Lockridge v. ETOWAH COUNTY COM'N

Employee appeals from an order of the Circuit Court of Etowah County reversing the Etowah County Personnel Board's decision requiring that he be reinstated as a deputy in the Etowah County Sheriff's Department.

Employee, Harold Lockridge, was a deputy sheriff of Etowah County. He had been an employee of the Etowah County Sheriff's Department for thirteen years. On May 7, 1982 Mr. Lockridge requested that Roy McDowell, sheriff of Etowah County, grant him a leave of absence from June 5, 1982 through November 2, 1982 so that he could campaign for election to the office of sheriff of Etowah…