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LaPETERS v. CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS

No. 59974.

263 N.W.2d 734 (1978)

Wallace N. LaPETERS, Appellant, v. The CITY OF CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, a Municipal Corporation, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert C. Nelson and R. M. Fassler, Cedar Rapids, for appellant.

Linda Thompson, Asst. City Atty., Cedar Rapids, for appellee.

Considered by MOORE, C. J., and REES, UHLENHOPP, HARRIS and McCORMICK, JJ.

McCORMICK, Justice.

This appeal concerns procedures for discharging a police chief. On August 23, 1976, the public safety commissioner of defendant City of Cedar Rapids notified plaintiff Wallace N. LaPeters he was fired as police chief. LaPeters attempted an appeal to the City civil service commission. The commission informed him it was without jurisdiction. He then brought a declaratory judgment action in which he requested an adjudication that he was subject to...

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