Taylor v. Gunderson

WOLFE, Chief Justice.

Appeal from an order requiring reinstatement of Alma Taylor as City Marshal of Mount Pleasant City and ordering payment of back salary.

The respondent was appointed City Marshal of Mount Pleasant City, Utah, on January 20, 1942, and assumed that office March 1, 1942. A motion was passed in the City Council that respondent “be asked to read the electric light meters along with his other duties.” Plaintiff refused to read the meters and on September 1, 1942, at a regular meeting of the City Council stated that if the Council insisted on his doing so he would resign, to take…