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KLEIN v. PIMA CTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT MERIT SYSTEM

No. 2 CA-CIV 2708.

119 Ariz. 69 (1978)

579 P.2d 573

Lupe A. KLEIN, Rita M. Ferguson, Blanche N. Johnson, Ruth Freeman, Leatrice O. Corner, Lettie Dee Moore, and Percy L. Olson, Appellants, v. PIMA COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT MERIT SYSTEM COUNCIL, a public body and William Coy Cox, Sheriff of Pima County and party in interest, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 2.

Rehearing Denied April 5, 1978.

Review Denied May 23, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry J. Severyn, Tucson, for appellants.

Stephen D. Neely, Pima County Atty., by Howard Baldwin and Rita Vatter, Deputy County Attys., Tucson, for appellees.

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

The facts, which are not in dispute, are as follows. Prior to July 19, 1969, each of the appellants was appointed in writing as a deputy sheriff of Pima County by the then sheriff, Waldon V. Burr. According to Sheriff Burr they had the power of arrest and the right to enforce all the Arizona statutes in the same manner as he had. Sheriff Burr appointed all his employees as deputy sheriffs because of the small number of employees on his...

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