Firemen's Retirement System of St. Louis v. City of St. Louis

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendants, The City of St. Louis (City) and City’s Director of Personnel, William Duffe, appeal from the judgment of the trial court, in a court-tried case, which granted declaratory judgment in favor of plaintiff, The Firemen’s Retirement System of St. Louis, and which enjoined City and its Director of Personnel from employing as a fire fighter defendant, Edward Kareh,1 who was retired from City’s fire department and receiving retirement benefits. We reverse.

Our review of a court-tried case is guided by Murphy v. Carron, 536 S.W.2d 30, 32 (Mo. banc 1976). In the ease before…