Livingstone v. MacGillivray

THE COURT.

The petitioner sued to compel the payment of his salary as assistant superintendent and foreman, a position he had held in the classified civil service of the water department of the city of San Bernardino. He propounds the following question as the issue involved on his appeal from the order of the trial court denying his petition: “Does the civil service board under the San Bernardino city charter under the power to hear appeals of employees who have been discharged, suspended or reduced in rank, have the incidental power to find and determine that a purported order of abolition…