State ex rel. Russel v. City of New Orleans

This is an appeal from a judgment commanding the commissioner of finance and the treasurer of the city to pay relators, who’are jury commissioners for the Criminal District Court, $212.70 out of the Judicial Expense Fund of the Parish of Orleans as part of plaintiffs’ salary as jury commissioners for the Parish of Orleans for part of the month of July, 1926.

By Act 337 of 1926, Sec. 2, p. 653, it was enacted:

“Each of said (jury) commissioners shall receive a salary of $2400 per annum, payable monthly, of which $1800 per annum is to be paid out of the Judiciary Fund of the Parish of Orleans,…