126 Cal. App. 43 - Coffey v. Way’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
December 1941
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hopping v. Council of City of Richmond · Bannerman v. Boyle · Matter of Carter · 57 Cal. App. 504 - Boyd v. Pendegast · 51 Cal. App. 82 - Hyde v. Wilde
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““Appellants further contend that the city council never adopted an ordinance providing for the procedure to be followed in the removal of its officers. So far as concerns the removal of an appointed officer, where the officer is not appointed for a fixed term, we see no merit in this contention. The passage of an ordinance to do that which the city council was already authorized to perform would be an idle act. (In re Thomas v. City of Petaluma, 33 Cal. App. 547 [ 165 Pac. 1021 ] ; City of Petaluma v. Hughes, 37 Cal. App. 473 [ 174 Pac. 336 ].)””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. Quinn
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