CITY OF TULSA v. MELLIN

CITY OF TULSA v. MELLIN
1944 OK 261
154 P.2d 100
194 Okla. 674
Case Number: 31396
Decided: 10/03/1944
Supreme Court of Oklahoma

CITY OF TULSA
v.
MELLIN

Syllabus

¶0 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS -- Validity and effect of policeman's removal in reduction of force as economy move.
The issues of fact and law in this case are substantially similar to those of case No. 31397, City of Tulsa v. McMillan, 194 Okla. 672, 154 P.2d 97, this day decided, and are governed thereby.

Appeal from District Court, Tulsa County; Oras A. Shaw, Judge.

Action by J. A. Mellin against the City of Tulsa. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. Reversed and remanded.

E. M. Gallaher, L. A. Justus, Philip J. Kramer, and C. Lawrence Elder, all of Tulsa, for plaintiff in error.
Eldon J. Dick and Lou Etta Bellamy, both of Tulsa, for defendant in error.

BAYLESS, J.

¶1 City of Tulsa, Okla., a municipal corporation, and certain of its officials appeal from a judgment of the district court of Tulsa county in favor of J. A. Mellin. This is a companion case to No. 31397, City of Tulsa v. F. M. McMillan, 194 Okla. 672, 154 P.2d 97, this day decided, and involves similar facts and issues of law. What we said in the McMillian Case applies here and governs this appeal, and there is no occasion to repeat.

¶2 The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause is remanded.

¶3 CORN, C. J., GIBSON, V. C. J., and RILEY, OSBORN, WELCH, HURST, and DAVISON, JJ., concur.