People Ex Rel. Meyering v. Whealan

This is an appeal from a judgment of the circuit court of Cook county awarding a writ of mandamus to compel the board of county commissioners of Cook county to determine the compensation of highway deputy sheriffs for the last five months of the fiscal year 1933 and to appropriate from the funds of the county a sufficient sum of money therefor.

Section 9 of article 10 of the constitution provides that the number of deputy sheriffs, together with the clerks and assistants to county officers, shall bé determined by a rule of the circuit court to be entered of record and that their compensation…