Bates v. City of Jenkins

MILLIKEN, Judge.

The appellant, Jesse Bates, who was elected police judge of the City of Jenkins, a fourth class city, at the November, 1957, regular election, brought this action to mandamus the city to pay him a salary of $200 a month instead of at the rate of $100 a month. The case turns on whether the City Council effectively reduced the $200 monthly salary established for the office by ordinance in 1929.

The record in this case displays some poor municipal bookkeeping. At the regular meeting of the City Council on February 2, 1957, prior to the election of the appellant to the office of…