Hartwell v. Pillans

The main question in this appeal is whether or not the appellants in the fixation and collection of their salaries as commissioners of Mobile had the right to increase the same in the absence of an official census, that is, federal, state, or municipal, showing such an increase in the population of the city of Mobile as would entitle them to an increase of $1,000 over what it was under the federal census of 1920.

In determining the status of the city of Mobile under its existing form of government, we must consider several acts of the Legislature of 1911, dealing with the commission form of…