People Ex Rel. Nauert v. Smith

Pursuant to leave granted, the People of the State, on the relation of Charles G. Nauert, filed in this court an original petition for a writ of mandamus against W. J. Smith, county clerk of Adams county. The relator alleged in his petition that at the general election held on November 2, 1926, he was elected to the office of county judge of Adams county and that he duly qualified and is acting as such; that by section 1 of an act entitled, “An act fixing and providing for the payment of the salaries of county judges, and to repeal all acts in conflict therewith,” approved June 30, 1925, the…