Snyder v. City of Owensboro

JONES, Justice.

This litigation involves a dispute between the firemen of Owensboro and the City of Owensboro and its officers.

The firemen seek to reverse a judgment dismissing their action challenging the validity of two ordinances of the City of Ow-ensboro adopted June 14, 1974. The ordinances established hourly wage rates for members of the City’s Fire Department.

The Kentucky Department of Labor by its acting commissioner moved the court for leave to intervene as a plaintiff. The motion for leave to intervene was sustained without objection. No appeal from the trial court’s judgment holding…