Bosworth v. Ellison

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carrodl —

Reversing.

At the regular November election in 1909, Mat H. Morgan was elected jailer of Whitley County for a term of four years, beginning on the first Monday in January, 1910. At the time he took the office, the compensation of jailers was fixed at fifty cents per day for keeping and dieting prisoners. In 1910 the Legislature passed an act, which took effect in June, 1910, increasing .the compensation of jailers for keeping and dieting prisoners from fifty cents to seventy-five cents per day. In August. 1911, Morgan resigned as jailer, and appellee…