FOX v. PIERCEY, CHIEF OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

No. 7533.

119 Utah 367 (1951)

227 P.2d 763

FOX v. PIERCEY, Chief of the Fire Department.

Supreme Court of Utah.

Decided February 21, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E.R. Christensen, Homer Holmgreen and A.P. Kesler, all of Salt Lake City, for appellant.

Rawlings, Wallace, Black & Roberts, and Dwight L. King, all of Salt Lake City, for respondent.


CROCKETT, Justice.

This appeal presents the question: Do the findings of the court below support its judgment that the resignation of the plaintiff from the Salt Lake City Fire Department was obtained by duress?

To answer that question, we proceed to a statement of the essential facts, then to a brief survey of the law of duress, and finally to an application of the law, to the facts.

These parties were before this court previously in a proceeding...

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