Court Opinion

ID: 9868319
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-26 18:28:49.538412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:45:49.409999
License: Public Domain

Mr. Justice Cothran:
I concur in the result. I fully agree with the Chief Justice that the City Council is without authority to require a civil service examination of appointees of the Board of Health, for the reasons stated by him. The Board of Health, under its general powers in the matter of appointment of Inspectors, has the right to insist upon a civil service examination, and so report to the City Council, which could then place these employees under civil service rules, but not until then.
I am not prepared to hold that “the petitioner is entitled to be paid for his services,” for the reason that that determination is not necessary upon this appeal, and for the further reason that it is questionable, in view of Section 2339, which requires the salaries of employees of the Board of Health to be “fixed by the * * * City Council before their appointment.” I think that this consideration, in addition to the fact that it does not appear that the City Council has funds applicable to the claim of the petitioner, is a sufficient ground for refusing the petition for mandamus.