Goss v. Personnel Board

CULLEN, Commissioner.

This is in essence a companion case to Goss, Commissioner of Highways v. Personnel Board of Kentucky, Ky., 456 S.W.2d 819 (this day decided). It involves eight employes of the Kentucky Department of Highways who were discharged in 1968 by the then commissioner, William Hazelrigg, and whose reinstatement with back pay1 was directed by judgment of the Franklin Circuit Court, from which the present Commissioner of Highways appeals. As in the Hoover case the principal issues relate to the sufficiency of the notices of discharge.

One of the eight employes here involved was…