Davis v. Civil Service Board

If the majority’s conclusions on the effect of the 1977 law were only doubtful, I would defer. I believe, however, that the majority’s result can only be achieved by convolution, and that the simple and correct decision has been missed. I therefore must dissent.1

The appellants’ brief contains straightforward analysis which shows the trial court’s primary error. That language, with slight emendation, should be our opinion:

"No provision in Chapter 854 *** could be said to manifest a legislative intent that it operate [on eligibility lists already in existence at the effective date of the Act],…