State Ex Rel. Glander v. Ferguson

The question presented in each of these cases is identical. That question is: Do the provisions of Section 20 of Article II of the Constitution of Ohio preclude payment of an increase of salary of an appointee officer, which increase is authorized by statute effective prior to such officer’s appointment, where the salary-increase statute and the appointment of such officer became effective subsequent to the time prescribed by statute for the expiration of the term to which such officer had previously been appointed, and where the officer so appointed occupied such office at the time the…