Haga v. City of Seattle

Plaintiff, a civil service employee of the defendant city, brought this action to recover compensation accruing to his position during a period he claims to have been wrongfully separated from it. The case was tried to the court, which found that plaintiff had been wrongfully separated from his position for forty-three days. From judgment accordingly entered, both plaintiff and defendant appeal.

With one exception, the material facts are not in dispute. It appears that in 1924 plaintiff acquired civil service standing as a carpenter; that from time to time he was employed as such in the park…