Murphy v. Grand County

I agree that the Board of County Commissioners “cannot fix the salary so low as to amount to destruction of the office or create a situation where no competent person would perform the duties of the office for that compensation,” and that “an express showing of bad motive is” not necessary. Fixing the salary of the county attorney for Grand County at $10.00 per year is no compensation at all and could have no other effect than to destroy the office or make it so that no competent person would perform the duties of that office for that sum. It seems clear that such salary would be no…