Porter v. State Ex Rel. Hays

—This was an action of mandamus by the relator as clerk of the Circuit Court of Scott County, to require the auditor to call the county council into special session and to direct it to appropriate the sum of $600.00 to pay the salary of a deputy clerk of said Circuit Court.

It is alleged in the complaint that the relator, Mark Hays, duly prepared and filed his budget and schedule of expenses of the office of clerk of the Circuit Court, and included therein a yearly salary in the sum of $600.00 for a deputy clerk of the Circuit Court for the calendar year ending December 31, 1934; that the…