State ex rel. Banks v. McClure
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ArPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: R. D. Mabshall, Circuit Judge. Mandarnos. In October, 1894, the board of supervisors of Douglas county passed a resolution making the office of sheriff of said county a salaried office, under ch. 53, Laws of 1881 (sec. 694a, S. & B. Ann.
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ArPEAL from a judgment of the circuit court for Douglas county: R. D. Mabshall, Circuit Judge. Mandarnos. In October, 1894, the board of supervisors of Douglas county passed a resolution making the office of sheriff of said county a salaried office, under ch. 53, Laws of 1881 (sec. 694a, S. & B. Ann. Stats.). A new sheriff was elected at the annual election on the first Tuesday in November, 1894, and at the regular annual meeting of the board of supervisors held afterwards during the same month the county board refused to fix the salary of the sheriff. Whereupon, while said board was still in…
1Opinion of the CourtWiNslow, J.
The solution of the controversy depends on the construction, of secs. 694, 694a, S. & B. Ann. Stats. Sec. 694, as amended by ch. 260, Laws of 1885, provides, in substance, that the county board, at its annual meeting in November, shall fix the salary of every county officer who is to he elected during the ensuing year, and who is entitled to a salary from the county treasury, and that such salary shall *315not be increased or diminished during his term of office. Sec. 694a (eh. 53, Laws of 1881) provides substantially that the county board of any county may by resolution make the sheriff a…
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