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GYAKUM v. SEATON

Civ. A. No. 4572-56.

162 F.Supp. 885 (1957)

John M. GYAKUM, Plaintiff, v. Fred A. SEATON, Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior, Conrad L. Wirth, Director of National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Edward J. Kelly, Superintendent, National Capital Parks, Department of the Interior, Harold F. Stewart, Chief, United States Park Police, Department of the Interior, Defendants.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

December 31, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Margolius, Carlton U. Edwards II, and Ralph H. Deckelbaum, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Oliver Gasch, U. S. Atty., Edward P. Troxell, E. Riley Casey, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for defendants.

MATTHEWS, District Judge.

By this action the plaintiff seeks to have the court compel the defendants to promote him to the rank of Lieutenant in the United States Park Police. He maintains that the Promotion Policy of the United States Park Police requires that a vacancy be filled by promotion of the highest numerically rated applicant. He says he is entitled to the promotion to Lieutenant as he attained the highest score on the examination conducted in February 1955...

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