COCKRIEL v. EMBRY


513 S.W.2d 487 (1974)

Carl COCKRIEL, Appellant, v. Foy EMBRY, Individually, and as Judge of Grayson County, Kentucky, Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 15, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Durward W. Maynard, H. S. Horen, Louisville, for appellant.

John B. Anderson, Owensboro, for appellee.


REED, Justice.

The appellee, Foy Embry, County Judge of Grayson County, removed the appellant, Carl Cockriel, as Grayson County engineer. KRS 179.060 empowers the county judge to remove the county engineer "at any time for incompetency, malfeasance or misfeasance." The statute requires written charges, a hearing preceded by notice and written specification of the grounds of removal if the charges are sustained; it also requires that "the record of the proceedings...

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