GRAFFEO v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

No. 8846.

351 So.2d 1311 (1977)

Paul S. GRAFFEO v. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS and Civil Service Commission of the City of New Orleans.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

October 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Detweiler, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Many, Lo Coco & Dwyer, Ralph D. Dwyer, Jr., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before LEMMON, GULOTTA and SCHOTT, JJ.


LEMMON, Judge.

Plaintiffs, four sergeants in the New Orleans Police Department, filed this suit seeking to require that their names be placed on the promotional register of policemen eligible for promotion to the rank of lieutenant. The trial court dismissed the suit, and plaintiffs appealed.

In the trial court plaintiffs' two-pronged attack on their exclusion from the register was based on assertions that (1) the Civil Service examination which they failed...

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