Court Opinion

ID: 9766038
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 04:29:52.654922+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:18.669315
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MONTGOMERY, Judge
(dissenting).
In the first three paragraphs of the majority opinion it is made clear that the action under consideration is one seeking mandamus against a city. The individual members of the city government are not parties to the action. In the majority opinion it is held that such action will not lie against the city and must be brought against the individual members of the body, citing the Turner case so holding, decided October IS, 1965, on the basis of Lewis v. Board of Councilmen of Frankfort, 305 Ky. 509, 204 S.W.2d 813. See authorities cited therein.
The Lewis case is on all fours with the present case. In that case plaintiff sued the Board of Councilmen of the city without suing the individual members of the Board. A judgment denying mandamus was affirmed. Such should be the holding here. This case should have been decided in favor of the City of Danville on this basis and affirmed, instead of having been decided against the City and reversed. The decision constitutes a perversion of justice.
In my opinion the stated reasons for treating this as a declaratory judgment action and reaching a different result are not justified in the face of the established line of cases referred to and the principles contained therein.
For these reasons I dissent.