Jenkins v. Universities Civil Service Merit Board of the State Universities Civil Service System

PRESIDING JUSTICE KARNS

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants, the Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University (Trustees) and the Universities Civil Service Merit Board (Merit Board), appeal from the judgment of the circuit court of Madison County reversing the Merit Board’s decision to discharge plaintiff, Gary R. Jenkins, from the University Police Department. The issue raised on appeal is whether the trial court erred in holding that the findings and decision of the Merit Board were contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence.

On May 10, 1979, plaintiff was suspended,…