Wright v. Oates

CULLEN, Commissioner.

Coleman Wright, Judge of the Shelby Circuit Court, Charles W. Dobbins, County Attorney of Jefferson County, and Ward J. Oates, Commissioner of Finance of Kentucky, submitted to the Franklin Circuit Court, under KRS 418.020, an agreed case presenting the question of the constitutionality, as to circuit judges now in office, of Section 1 of Chapter 25 of the Acts of 1958 (compiled as KRS 64.498), which provides that the compensation of all circuit judges, payable out of the State Treasury, shall be $8,400 per annum (effective July 1, 1958). The circuit court (a special…