DENVER v. NORRIS

No. 17386.

281 P.2d 160 (1955)

CITY AND COUNTY OF DENVER, a municipal corporation; Edward O. Geer, as Manager of Safety and Excise; Civil Service Commission of the City and County of Denver; and Erwin A. Andersen, as Secretary of the Civil Service Commission of the City and County of Denver, Plaintiffs in Error, v. Ethel D. NORRIS, Defendant In Error.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

March 14, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Banks, Horace N. Hawkins, Jr., Denver, for plaintiffs in error.

Neil Horan, Denver, for defendant in error.


HOLLAND, Justice.

Defendant in error, Ethel Norris, was regularly appointed to the position of matron in the classified service of the police department of the City and County of Denver on January 16, 1933, after passing a competitive civil service examination for that position. At that time the charter provisions of the City and County of Denver, particularly section 319 thereof, provided that the police department should consist of certain specified officers and...

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