Cunningham v. Civil Service Commission

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Third Circuit Court upholding a ruling of the Hawaii County Civil Service Commission sustaining the action of the manager of the county’s water board demoting appellant for insubordination.1

The facts of the case were undisputedly established before the Civil Service Commission. As far as pertinent they are related hereunder.

On or about April 24, 1963, Mrs. Hale, chairman of the Hawaii County Board of Supervisors, sent the water *279board’s manager, William Y. Thompson, a note relating that Samnel Kawahara had reported to her, “a Water Board employee who…