Munoz v. City of San Diego

Opinion

AULT, J.

This action was filed by plaintiff as an elector of San Diego to obtain a declaration that the portion of the.city charter which fixes the salary of councilmen at $5,000 per annum (portion of art. Ill, § 12) is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and under article I, sections 21 and 24 of the California Constitution. Plaintiff’s theory is that this salary has become so inadequate as the result of inflation that it now economically discriminates against electors who have families to support, in effect imposes a property qualification…