KENTUCKY STATE AFL-CIO v. PUCKETT


391 S.W.2d 360 (1965)

KENTUCKY STATE AFL-CIO et al., Appellants, v. Jesse PUCKETT, Mayor, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

May 28, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert L. Segal, Louisville, Bert T. Combs, Lexington, for appellants.

H.B. Kinsolving, III, Shelbyville, for appellees.

Robert T. Caldwell, Ashland, for intervenors Cities of Morganfield and Horse Cave.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

This appeal is from a judgment upholding the validity of a "right-to-work" ordinance of the City of Shelbyville. Appellants are labor organizations and certain members and officers thereof, who had sought a judgment declaring the ordinance to be unconstitutional.

The significant provision of the ordinance is:

"* * * the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership in, or conditioned...

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