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LOFTUS v. CARBONDALE

405 Pa. 276 (1961)

Loftus, Appellant, v. Carbondale.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

November 14, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George I. Puhak, with him Maurice V. Cummings, for appellant.

Joseph T. McGraw, for City of Carbondale, appellee.

Before BELL, C.J., MUSMANNO, JONES, COHEN, EAGEN and ALPERN, JJ.

OPINION BY MR. JUSTICE COHEN, November 14, 1961:

On November 18, 1958, William J. Loftus, a paid employee of the Fire Bureau of the City of Carbondale, Pennsylvania, a third class city, engaged in an altercation with the mayor of the city and was promptly suspended by the mayor for a period of ten days. Since the mayor was not the head of the department having jurisdiction over the fire bureau, Loftus, upon direction of the director of the fire bureau, continued to...

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