GOSS v. PERSONNEL BOARD


456 S.W.2d 824 (1970)

C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and W. S. Anderson, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Wendell Cole, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Taylor Dunn, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Sherman R. Hisel, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Powell Isaacs, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Wayne B. Knight, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and Henry T. McGlone, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Elmer Neff, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Robert H. Nunn, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and William A. Porter, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and G. R. Sparks, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and Paul L. Wright, Appellees. C. Eugene GOSS, Commissioner of Highways, Appellant, v. PERSONNEL BOARD, Commonwealth of Kentucky and W. P. Young, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

June 26, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Duff, General Counsel, Department of Highways, James F. Perkins, Department of Highways, Paul E. Hunley, Department of Highways, Robert J. Rieckhoff, Department of Highways, Robert E. Adams, Department of Highways, Frankfort, for appellant.

John Breckinridge, Atty. Gen., Henri L. Mangeot, William O. Gilbreath, Deputy Attys. Gen., Frankfort, for appellee personnel board.

Edward F. Prichard, Jr., Frankfort, David Taylor, I. C. James, Harrodsburg, William A. Porter, Thomas B. Givhan and J. Chester Porter, Shepherdsville, for appellee employees.


CULLEN, Commissioner.

We have here 13 consolidated cases, each of which involves an employe of the Kentucky Department of Highways whose discharge from employment by order of the Commissioner of Highways1 was found by the Personnel Board to have been motivated by political reasons, wherefore the board, pursuant to KRS 18.270, ordered the commissioner to reinstate the employe without loss of pay. In each of the cases the commissioner ignored...

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