CITY OF FRANKFORT v. TRIPLETT


365 S.W.2d 328 (1963)

CITY OF FRANKFORT, Kentucky, Appellant, v. Harry G. TRIPLETT, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

February 22, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen Prewitt, Frankfort, for appellant.

E. Gaines Davis, Jr., Smith, Reed & Leary, Frankfort, for appellee.


PALMORE, Judge.

The City of Frankfort was reclassified from a 3d to a 2d class city in 1956. Later in the same year its electorate adopted the city manager form of government, KRS 89.400 et seq. In January of 1958 the police judge appointed the appellee, Harry Triplett, as clerk of his court, whereupon the board of commissioners enacted an ordinance fixing the clerk's salary at $250 per month and purporting to prescribe his duties. (We say "purporting" because, among...

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