State ex rel. Chapman v. Lesser
Ohio Supreme Court
In Mandamus. This cause was submitted to this court upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts, from which the following appears: On October 14, 1912, Frederick W. Bertsch was appointed chief of the fire department of the city of Jackson, Ohio, and continued to perform the duties of that office up until the 15th day of June, 1915, at which date the mayor of Jackson suspended him from office and filed with the civil service commission of that city his reason for so…
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In Mandamus. This cause was submitted to this court upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts, from which the following appears: On October 14, 1912, Frederick W. Bertsch was appointed chief of the fire department of the city of Jackson, Ohio, and continued to perform the duties of that office up until the 15th day of June, 1915, at which date the mayor of Jackson suspended him from office and filed with the civil service commission of that city his reason for so doing. On the 21st day of June, 1915, the civil service commission heard the charges against Bertsch and ordered that the…
1Opinion of the CourtDonahue, J.
The first question presented by the record in this case is as to the validity of the order of the civil service commission of the city of Jackson, Ohio, permanently suspending Fred*398erick W. Bertsch from the office of chief of the fire department of that city.
On the 15th day of June, 1915, the mayor of Jackson suspended Mr. Bertsch from office and forthwith certified that fact, together with the causes for such suspension, to the civil service commission, and that commission within five days from the date of the receipt of the charges proceeded to hear the same and rendered a final judgment…
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