Gribben v. Kirk

This Court has consolidated two actions before it because both concern the payment of a judgment to certain state police officers for unpaid overtime which this Court addressed in Gribben v. Kirk, 195 W.Va. 488, 466 S.E.2d 147 (1995) (in order to avoid confusion we will refer to the prior case as Gribben I and to the two actions now before us as Gribben II). In the first action now before us, Colonel Thomas Kirk, the Superintendent of the Division of Public Safety, appeals the January 24, 1996 order of the Circuit Court of Kanawha County which ordered, inter alia, Col. Kirk, Glen B. Gainer,…