State Ex Rel. Franz v. Taylor

This case and the Lynch case, recently decided by this court, are typical examples of visiting the sins of the appointing authority and the Civil Service Commission upon the employee. In the two cases, State, ex rel. Slovensky, v. Taylor, Dir., 135 Ohio St., 601, 21 N. E. (2d), 990, and State, ex rel. Lagedrost, v. Beightler, Dir., 135 Ohio St., 624, 21 N. E. (2d), 992, this court decided that on principle provisional appointees were entitled to the protection of Section 486-17a, General Code, against summary removal without cause. That was an interpretation of the rights of the appointee on…