Court Opinion

ID: 9855205
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 06:20:58.040598+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:23:43.489884
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Rogoshesxe, Justice
(concurring specially).
While I concur in the conclusion that the record justifies affirmance, I feel compelled to express my view of the rule under which the discharge proceedings were initiated. It appears to permit discharge of a civil service employee for mere neglect in paying personal debts without any proof that such constituted misconduct affecting the performance of official duties and directly affecting the rights and interests of the public. I cannot believe that a mere violation of such a department rule could be sustained as sufficient in law to constitute a cause of removal under our decisions beginning with the early case of State ex rel. Hart v. Common Council of Duluth, 53 Minn. 238, 55 N. W. 118.