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PARKS v. CITY OF MARSHALLTOWN

No. 88-735.

440 N.W.2d 377 (1989)

Ronald PARKS, Appellee, v. CITY OF MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, and Dale Simmons, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 17, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel T.S. Greer of Cartwright, Druker & Ryden, Marshalltown, for appellants.

Paul C. Peglow of Johnson, Sudenga, Latham & Peglow, Marshalltown, for appellee.

Considered by HARRIS, P.J., and LARSON, NEUMAN, SNELL and ANDREASEN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

Parks was awarded punitive but not compensatory damages in this suit which arose after he was passed over for promotion as a city employee. We have no difficulty in deciding the punitive damages are inappropriate. More difficult is selecting which of the city's theories should be the basis for rejecting them. We reverse.

Plaintiff Parks was employed as a truck driver with the street and alley department of the defendant City of Marshalltown...

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