Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court March 10, 1994 (Kraft v. Police Commissioner)

O’Connor, J.

The plaintiff, Martin B. Kraft, was appointed a Boston police officer in 1983 and served with an unblemished record for several years. In 1988 the defendant police commissioner terminated Kraft’s employment after discovering that, in completing application forms for the police officer position, Kraft had failed to disclose that he had *236been hospitalized for mental illness.