Willett v. Weaver
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court, Calhoun County; A. P. Agee, Judge. Petition by E. D. Willett for mandamus to compel John P. Weaver, acting courity treasurer, to pay his warrant as judge of the court of common pleas. From a decree denying the petition, petitioner appeals. The mandamus. should have been granted on the following authority: 118 Ala. 7, 24 South. 89; 122 Ala. 130, 27 South. 327; 45 Ala. 160; 172 Ala. 160, 54 South. 605; 29 Neb. 76, 45 N. W. 266, 26 Am.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Calhoun County; A. P. Agee, Judge. Petition by E. D. Willett for mandamus to compel John P. Weaver, acting courity treasurer, to pay his warrant as judge of the court of common pleas. From a decree denying the petition, petitioner appeals. The mandamus. should have been granted on the following authority: 118 Ala. 7, 24 South. 89; 122 Ala. 130, 27 South. 327; 45 Ala. 160; 172 Ala. 160, 54 South. 605; 29 Neb. 76, 45 N. W. 266, 26 Am. St¡ Rep. 373; 50 Wis. 178, 6 N. W. 557; 10 How. 402, 13 L. Ed. 472; 18 Minn. 199 (Gil. 182); 5 N. Y. 285; 27 Cal. 470; 45 Cal. 553; 21…
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
August 25, 1915, the Legislature passed the act entitled “An act to establish an inferior court in precincts 15 and 20 in Calhoun comity, Alabama, in lieu of all justices of the peace and notaries public with power of justice of the peace, in said precincts,” etc., fixing the salary of the judge at $1,200 per annum. Local Acts, p. 93 et scq. September 23, 1919 (Loc. Laws 1919, p. 169), the foregoing act was amended so as to fix the salary of the judge at $1,800 per annum. The county treasurer refusing to pay a warrant drawn on him for the salary at the amended rate, the' judge, appellant,…
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