Gunter v. Beasley

Defendants below, the Treasurer, Comptroller, and Finance Director of the State of Alabama, appeal from a final judgment ordering payment by the State of $124,350, plus interest, to plaintiff, Jere Beasley. The trial court determined that monthly expense allowances totalling that amount were wrongfully withheld from Beasley during his eight-year tenure in office as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, over defendants' arguments that the legislative resolutions which authorized the expense allowance were in violation of several provisions of the Alabama Constitution.

Beasley served two terms as…