Brown v. . Comrs. of Richmond County

The local court, of which plaintiff was elected presiding judge, was abolished by the General Assembly in 1939. This was. a permissible exercise of legislative authority. Mial v. Ellington, 134 N. C., 131, 46 S. E., 961; S. v. Jennette, 190 N. C., 96, 129 S. E., 184; Queen v. Comrs. of Haywood, 193 N. C., 821, 138 S. E., 310; 12 Am. Jur., 53, sec. 420.

Upon the ratification of that Act the office to which plaintiff had been elected became nonexistent. Both the duties and the emoluments of the office terminated. Plaintiff could render no further service and could claim no further compensation…