Civil Service Commission v. Tankersley

STANLEY, Commissioner.

After a hearing the Civil Service Commission of Corbin sustained charges that Carl Tankersley, Tax Collector and Treasurer of the city, had failed to account for funds received by him and dismissed him from the position or office. Tankersley appealed the action to the Whitley Circuit Court. KRS 90.370. Upon a de novo trial the court: (1) found the evidence submitted in support of the charges to be “speculative, vague, indefinite and uncertain, and the Court cannot determine or adjudge from such testimony that an actual cash shortage exists or existed as claimed and set…