Wells v. Roberts

STEINFELD, Judge.

In the 1963 November election, appellee, John H. Roberts, was- elected Mayor of the City of Martin, Floyd County, Kentucky, for a four-year term beginning January 6, 1964. No salary for that term was fixed until the date Roberts took office. On that date the city council set his salary as Mayor at $100.00 per month and he was paid at that rate for the first twenty-four months of his term. A new city council, the appellants, was elected in November 1965 and took office in January 1966. Immediately, it rescinded the order of the former city council fixing Roberts’ salary and he…