West v. Village of Bentleyville

This is an appeal from the trial court’s granting ap-pellees’ motion for summary judgment.

Appellant, Jack West, was a police officer in the village of Bentleyville. He proposed that he would “retire” for two months in order to be eligible for retirement benefits, and then return to work on a limited basis. Appellant’s claim is based on the theory that he relied on “representations” by two council members and the police chief that he would be rehired, otherwise he would not have retired in the first place.

Appellant assigns one error for review.

“The trial court erred to the prejudice of…