Powers v. Board of Public Works

THE COURT.

A hearing was granted in these cases, after decision by the District Court of Appeal, First Appellate District, Division One, in order to give further consideration to the contentions of appellants that respondents herein were not permanent employees and that their respec tive positions had been abolished by resolutions of the Board of Public Works.

After reading the transcript we are convinced that neither of these contentions can be sustained.

The evidence clearly shows that each of the respondents, by reason of six months’ continuous work as painter, had acquired the status of a…