Stone v. Board of Prison Commissioners

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Affirming.

For several years prior to 1912 the appellant had been employed as a guard at the Frankfort Peniten*641tiary. In December, 1912, he was removed by the Board of Prison Commissioners in charge of the penitentiary, and on December 24, 1914, brought this suit against the three members of the Board, the Warden and Jesse Arnold and Nash Adkins, guards at the penitentiary.

In his petition he averred that pursuant to the orders of the Board of Prison Commissioners, the Warden wrongfully and illegally dismissed him from office as guard, and that his removal…