Poertner v. Hess

Appellants appeal from the trial court’s decision ordering the secretary of state to certify that respondent became a circuit judge of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit on January 2, 1979, and declaring that from that date respondent is entitled to the salary of a circuit judge. Whether respondent is to be a circuit judge, as he claims, or an associate circuit judge, as appellants contend, depends upon the population of Franklin County on January 2, 1979, the effective date of the 1976 amendments to art. V of the Missouri Constitution. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, transferred…