State ex rel. Lennon v. Kellogg

— On December 21, 1920, the relator, Lennon, was, and for some time prior thereto had *585been, an employee of tbe city of Seattle in its classified civil service. On the date given be was operating, as motorman and conductor, one of tbe cars of tbe city’s street railway system, and while so operating tbe car brought it into collision with another car of tbe city. For this act be was, on tbe next day, discharged from bis employment by tbe city’s superintendent of railways. Tbe superintendent immediately notified tbe civil service commission of tbe discharge, stating in Ms notification tbe reasons…