Vandegrift v. Board of Supervisors

Opinion

JANES, J.

The board of supervisors, auditor, and treasurer of Butte County appeal from a superior court judgment which ordered issuance of a peremptory writ of mandate commanding appellants to take all necessary steps to cause petitioner—a former district attorney of Butte County— to be paid, with interest, the sum of $5,247.21. That sum is the difference between (1) the total salary paid to petitioner as district attorney under the 1963 amendment of Government Code section 28126 1 for the period Sep tember 17, 1965, to January 3, 1967 (on which latter date he commenced a new term of…