Borough of Monaca v. Kalervo

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

Before this Court is an appeal by the Borough of Monaca and the Civil Service Commission of the Borough of Monaca from a decision and order of the Court of Common Pleas of Beaver County granting a writ of mandamus to Lalli Kalervo and directing that he be reinstated to his former position with the Borough Police Department. The matter has come to us following the common pleas court’s en banc dismissal of exceptions to the trial judge’s decree nisi.

This Court’s scope of review of matters such as this requires that we affirm the trial court unless there has been an abuse…