State Ex Rel. Grosch v. City of New Orleans

McCALEB, Justice.

This is a mandamus proceeding in which • the duly appointed deputies of the Criminal Sheriff-of the Parish of Orleans (115 in number) seek an order commanding the city of New Orleans and the members of its Commission Council to adopt an amended budget of expenditures for the year 1946 so as to include therein sufficient funds for the payment of their salaries, as required by Act No. 294 of 1946, for a period of five months from August 1 to December 31, 1946 and to budget and appropriate the sum of $220,840 yearly, for the payment of their salaries for subsequent years, in…