Andrews v. County Court of Kanawha County

Maxwell, President:

The sheriff of Kanawha County seeks by mandamus to compel the county court to issue orders for the salaries of the sheriff and his deputies. No orders were issued for September, October or November, 1933.

The county court answers that there is no money in the general county fund with which to pay these salaries; that by reason of the decision of this Court in the cases of Bee v. City of Huntington and Eakle v. County Court of Braxton County, decided together, 114 W. Va. 40, 171 S. E. 539, the levies which had been laid for Kanawha County for the fiscal year 1933-34 under…