Opinion

State ex rel. Pell v. City of Westlake

  • 64 Ohio St. 2d 360
  • 18 Ohio Op. 3d 514
  • 415 N.E.2d 289
  • 1980 Ohio LEXIS 886
Court
Ohio Supreme Court
Filed
Dec 30, 1980
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown, Celebrezze, Dowd, Holmes, Locher, Sweeney
Cited by
14 cases
Authority
More cited than 15.1%

newly created position was vacant by virtue of ordinance authorizing the position and general appropriation for department

How later courts described this case

  • newly created position was vacant by virtue of ordinance authorizing the position and general appropriation for department

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

William B. Brown, J.,

dissenting. In my judgment, the threshold question is whether there was a vacancy for the position of sergeant in fiscal year 1979. Because I believe that the instant cause is governed by State, ex rel. Finn, v. Garfield Heights (1973), 34 Ohio St. 2d 5 , and because it is of no consequence that the sergeant’s position was already in existence, I would find that council did not appropriate the funds for appellant’s promotion. Therefore, there was no vacancy.

Celebrezze, C. J., and Holmes, J., concur in the foregoing dissenting opinion.

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