CITY OF DuBOIS v. BEERS

No. 1487 C.D. 1987.

120 Pa.Commw. 103 (1988)

547 A.2d 887

City of DuBois, Appellant v. James R. Beers, Appellee.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

September 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Toni M. Cherry, with her, Edward V. Cherry, Gleason, Cherry & Cherry, P.C., for appellant.

Robert M. Hanak, with him, Matthew B. Taladay, for appellee.

Argued May 25, 1988, before Judges MacPHAIL and COLINS, and Senior Judge NARICK, sitting as a panel of three.


OPINION BY SENIOR JUDGE NARICK, September 27, 1988:

Appellee James R. Beers (Beers) was employed as the Chief of Police by the City of DuBois (City), Appellant herein, a position he had held since 1978. While on duty on January 2, 1985, Beers responded to a report that a gunman was holding hostages at a local business college and that shots had been fired. Armed with a shotgun, Beers entered the building alone, confronted and disarmed the gunman. Some three weeks...

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