Northcutt, Chief of Fire Department v. Hardebeck

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

Appellee, A. W. Hardebeck, was a member of the fire-department of the city of Covington, which is one of the-second class. Section 3138-4 of the 1930 Edition of Carroll’s Kentucky Statutes, and which is a part of the charter of cities of the second class, prescribes that a member of the police or fire departments of second-class cit ies may be suspended or removed by the commissioners of the city for “inefficiency, misconduct, insubordination or violation of law or of the rules adopted by the commissioners.” The section also prescribes the method…