PERKIOMEN TP. v. MEST


513 Pa. 598 (1987)

522 A.2d 516

The TOWNSHIP OF PERKIOMEN, the Board of Supervisors of Perkiomen Township, Claire S. Olsen, Richard Kratz, David N. Myers, and John Steele, Four of the Five Supervisors of Perkiomen Township, Appellants, v. C. Roy MEST, Lawrence T. Zimmerman, Shane T. Clark, and William Patterson, Jr., Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided March 10, 1987.

Reargument Denied June 4, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean P. Flynn, for appellants.

Thomas L. Gowen, James R. Caiola, Leigh P. Narducci, for appellees.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, HUTCHINSON, ZAPPALA and PAPADAKOS, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

PAPADAKOS, Justice.

Appellees were members of the four man Perkiomen Township Police Department, which supplied sixteen hour per day service to Perkiomen Township, a Second Class Township in Montgomery County. In 1982, the Board of Supervisors retained a consulting firm to review the operation and management of the police department. The consultants concluded that the police department was not well run and made four recommendations:...

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