Blair v. City of Winchester

McDONALD, Judge:

The appellant, Kenneth Blair, has appealed from the judgment of the Clark Circuit Court which affirmed the decision of the Board of Commissioners of the appellee, City of Winchester, to terminate Blair’s employment as a firefighter. The city’s purported reason for firing Blair was that a work-related injury had left him physically unable to properly perform the work of a fireman. Blair indeed suffered a back injury while attempting to put out a fire in January, 1984. He had not yet been released by his physician to return to work when, on October 9, 1984, he attended a meeting…