People ex rel. Murphy v. Lippincott
Illinois Supreme Court
This was an application in this court for a mandamus against the Auditor of Public Accounts, by the relator, William P. Murphy. The respondent demurred, to the relator’s petition, and the demurrer was sustained. The opinion states the facts of the case.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McAllister
The constitution of 1848 declared that, “The judges of the circuit courts shall receive a salary of $1000 per annum, payable quarterly, and no more.” (Sec. 10, art. 5, const. 1848.)
January 29, 1869, an act went into force, entitled “An act in aid of a revision of the statute laws of this State,” the first section of which required the several circuit judges of the State to observe and carefully note redundancies, omissions, inconsistencies and imperfections of the public statute laws of the State and report the.same to the Supreme Court annually, with their views as to how and in what manner…
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