State, Ex Rel. Dudley v. Kromer

The appellant herein Joe E. Dudley, as mayor of the appellant the city of Norwalk, removed the appellee, Frank A. Kromer, from his office as chief of police of that city. The charges were incompetency, inefficiency and failure of good behaviour. Kromer appealed from the order of removal to the city’s civil service commission which, after a full hearing at which the counsel for the city was present, modified the order of removal to one of suspension for fifteen days.

Thereupon the mayor and the city gave timely notice of appeal on questions of law and fact from the commission’s order to the…