Nickell v. Thomas

HOWARD, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court which held that in K.R.S. 441.-009 the words “... the compensation of the jailer in the calendar year of 1981 ...” refer to the total statutory fees received by the jailer’s office and not to that amount which the jailer received as his personal compensation for that year.

The appellee, Roger Thomas, is the duly elected, qualified and serving jailer of Rowan County, Kentucky, having assumed that office on January 1, 1982, and previous to the present term of office, had served the previous four-year-term as Rowan County…