Wolper v. Redfield

How courts have described this case

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• property interest emerged from explicit mutual understandings adjunct to a written contract
• clerk who “held the office at the pleasure of the board . . . was removable at its discretion, without the preferring of charges, notice, or the benefit of a hearing”
• clerk who “held the office at the 18 pleasure of the board . . . was removable at its discretion, without the preferring of charges, notice, or the benefit of a hearing”
• “It seems now to be the universally accepted rule, that, where the tenure of the office is not prescribed by law, the power to remove is an incident to the power to appoint.”
• “It seems now to be the universally accepted rule, that, where the tenure of the office is not prescribed by law, the power to remove is an incident to the power to appoint.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).