Hall v. Noplis

PALMORE, Judge.

KRS 64.255 authorizes the payment of salaries to magistrates for the performance of duties incident to the exericse of criminal jurisdiction. It became effective March 28, 1958. On April 8, 1958, the Perry Fiscal Court adopted orders setting the salaries of its magistrates at $200 per month and dispensing with all further compensation on a per diem basis. Because the validity of the statute was elsewhere in litigation, the county treasurer declined to pay these salaries, and on December 16, 1958, the individual magistrates brought suit against him in the Perry Circuit Court to…