Roper v. Borough of Versailles

Opinion by

President Judge Crumlish,

William J. Roper appeals an Allegheny County Common Pleas Court order upholding his employment termination as a part-time police officer by the Borough of Versailles. We affirm.

On January 7, 1980, the Versailles Borough Council passed and recorded this resolution:

[T]o nominate the retention of all existing part-time police, subject to the condition [that] they continue employment with the Versailles Borough police department alone.

On January 17, 1980, Roper was informed by the Chairman of the Police Committee and Versailles’s Chief of Police of the Council…