Steen v. City of Los Angeles

In this action for declaratory relief plaintiff failed to obtain the relief prayed for in his complaint in respect to his rights as a civil service employee of defendant, city of Los Angeles.

The controversy between the parties has been before this court previously. (Steen v. Board of Civil Service Commrs., 26 Cal.2d 716 [160 P.2d 816].) In that case the plaintiff sought in the superior court a review and annulment of an order of the Board of Civil Service Commissioners (a local administrative agency exercising quasi judicial functions, hereafter called board) of the city of Los Angeles which…