Frazier v. Allen

PRICE, Judge.

The plaintiff, who had appealed his discharge as a Bossier City policeman to the Bossier City Municipal Fire and Police Civil Service Board, challenged in these proceedings the qualifications of a recent appointee, Walter Cook,1 as a member of the board because he had not been a Bossier City resident for five years preceding his appointment as required by La.R.S. 33:2476(B).2

The issue before this court is whether Cook continued to be a resident of Bossier City during his absence on military service during the five-year period preceding his February 1978 appointment to the Civil…