Gilliam v. Greene

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

Tbe sole question, wbiob this case presents for determination is whether a former Commonwealth’s attorney *239who failed to earn his maximum salary because of a deficit in the assessment and collection of fines during his incumbency may have such deficit supplied from a surplus of fines assessed and collected over and above the maximum salary during a succeeding term. It arises in this way: The appellant and plaintiff below, John H. Gilliam, was elected at the regular election in 1909 to the office of Commonwealth’s attorney for the eighth judicial…