State ex rel. Savin v. City of Seattle

Citations

• 65 Wash. 645
• 118 P. 821
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 989

Syllabus

<p>Municipal Corporations — OeitcerS — Removal — Civil Service Commissions- — Scope oe Charse. Under Seattle city charter, art. 16, § 12, providing that, upon the removal of an officer, the civil service commission shall, upon demand for an investigation, make the same and if the removal is not sustained the officer shall he reinstated, upon the removal of a police officer for conduct unbecoming an officer, in being in a compromising position with a woman, the findings and decisions of the civil service commission that the removal is sustained for the reason that he was guilty of. conduct unbecoming an officer in cultivating the acquaintance of the woman, although he was not guilty of being in a compromising position, is not objectionable as being based upon a distinct offense other than the one charged, under a rule of the commission requiring causes for removal to be fully stated; since the commission only found him guilty of a lower degree of the offense charged (Dunbar, C. J., dissenting).</p>