Matthews v. Ward

CLAY, Commissioner.

This is an agreed case prosecuted under KRS 418.020. The question concerns the validity of a contract between the Commonwealth (on behalf of the Department of Highways) and one of its employees in which the Commonwealth, in consideration of the employee’s transfer to a new work station in this state, agrees to pay him $300 as a monetary allowance in lieu of his moving expenses.

A preliminary procedural question is raised as to whether or not an appeal to this Court in an agreed case brought under KRS 418.020, where the amount in controversy is less than $2500, must be…