Grise v. Combs

This Court has heretofore expressed the opinion that a veterans’ bonus might legally be paid. Stovall v. Gartrell, Ky., 332 S.W.2d 256. Following that in the concurring opinion of Judge Palmore in Wat*684kins v. State Property and Buildings Commission of Kentucky, Ky., 342 S.W.2d 515, it was said:

“The basis, threadbare as it is, on which we sustain the bonus is that the veterans residing in Kentucky are a segment of our population who can be classified or singled out for the payment of a benefit out of public funds as an adjustment for a presumed economic disadvantage or setback suffered by each…