Webster v. Marshall

Otis, Justice.

These proceedings seek review of an order entered by the commissioner of highways dismissing petitioner, Richard S. Webster, from service as a Minnesota highway patrolman. The district court found *293the discharge to be arbitrary, unreasonable, capricious, and discriminatory, and directed that petitioner be suspended without pay from September 28, 1963, until January 31, 1964, and that he thereafter be reinstated. From that order the commissioner appeals.

The facts are not in dispute. On September 28, 1961, petitioner secured the commissioner’s consent to accept outside employment…