Locke v. County Court of Raleigh County

Lively, Judge:

Relators, Locke and Butts, assert that they are de jure and de facto probation officers of the county of Raleigh and by these mandamus proceedings seek to compel the county court of that county to pay their respective salaries now in arrear. The county court replies that Kyle D. Harper and. T. C. Gla-shen were appointed probation officers for that county on the 31st day of January, 1929, and November 30, 1929, respectively, by the judge of the circuit court and that the last two named persons claim to be the probation officers under that appointment, and that a doubt has arisen…