Dermott Special School District v. Brown

wrote a rather strong dissenting opinion in Austin in which he was joined by Justice Smith, and in which they expressed the same view now presented by the sheriff in the case at bar. The arguments advanced in the dissenting opinion in Austin state:

“If the percentage of commissions prescribed by the statutes was reasonable at that time [time of enactment], it has not been rendered unreasonable, so far as it relates to Lonoke County, by the subsequent special statute providing for the officers of that county to receive definite salaries to be paid out of the statutory commissions turned in to…