Court Opinion

ID: 9632121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:03:43.348018+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:08:08.920442
License: Public Domain

Mr. Chief Justice Moore
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The veterans preference provision of the constitution of Colorado, namely, Article XII, Section 14, was adopted prior to the conflict in Korea. By the provisions of that article preferences for civil service employment were granted to veterans of specifically named wars and also to military personnel serving in “* * * the period of any war in which the United States may hereafter engage.”
It is my judgment that the so-called Korean conflict was a “war” and that the United States did “engage” therein. When the “war” began and when it ended are questions of fact to be determined by consideration of the totality of activity being carried on at any given time, and not by resort to calling the conflict something other than what it actually is.
If a soldier was in the service at a time when actual war was being fought, in my judgment he is entitled *353to the preference provided by the constitution, without regard to the question of whether war had been declared by act of Congress.