Bassler v. Gordon

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

The proceeding was one by a civil service employee in the health department of the city of Kansas City, to recover from the city salary for a period during which he was excluded from employment by wrongful removal. The court held he' could not recover that part of the salary which had been paid to employees appointed in his place according to civil service rules, and the court offset against the unexpended portion of the salary net earnings of plaintiff during the period of exclusion. The result was, judgment was rendered for defendants.…