City of Grand Prairie v. Horrocks

STEPHENS, Justice.

This case arose from the temporary suspension of an employee by the City of Grand Prairie. The employee timely appealed his suspension to the Civil Service Commission, which entered its oral order, but failed to reduce the order to writing as required by TEX.REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 1269m, § 16 (Vernon Supp.1984). On appeal from the Civil Service Commission’s oral order, the district court correctly held that the entry of a written order by the Civil Service Commission is essential to its jurisdiction, yet erroneously granted relief to the employee by ordering his…