Legal Opinion

Pierpont v. Crouch

California Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1858PublishedCited by 36 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the Seventh Judicial District, County of Mapa. The facts of the case sufficiently appear in the opinion of the Court.

1Opinion of the CourtField, J.

Terry, C. J., and Baldwin, J., concurring.

The relator is the district-attorney, and the defendant is the auditor, of Mapa county; and the question between them relates to the salary to which the relator is entitled for the quarter commencing on the first Monday of October, 1857.' By the act of May, 1855, fixing the compensation of the district-attorneys of the several counties of the State, the yearly salary of the district-attorney of Mapa county is fixed at one thousand dollars, but by the act of February, 1857, entitled “An Act to fix the Compensation of the County Judge and…

2Cases cited2 opinions

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3Cited by36 opinions

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