Vaughan v. Moore

The Mobile County Personnel Board filed a petition for declaratory judgment against the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners of the City of Mobile and against W.D. Bolton, challenging the right of the Water Board to employ Bolton as secretary-treasurer of the Water Board outside of the Civil Service for Mobile County. The trial court ruled that the position of secretary-treasurer is an elective office of the Water Board and does not fall within the classified service under the jurisdiction of the Mobile County Personnel Board. We affirm.

The controversy arose in this manner: Prior to the…