Cannon v. Taylor

486 P.2d 493 (1971)

Ivan CANNON, Daryl B. Garner, and Forrest Purdy, Appellants,

v.

William L. TAYLOR, C.R. Cleland, and John Myers, Respondents.

No. 6367.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

June 22, 1971.

L. Earl Hawley, Edward G. Marshall, Las Vegas, for appellants.

George E. Ogilvie, Jr., Las Vegas, for respondents.

OPINION

ZENOFF, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves a dispute over salary levels which North Las Vegas officials established for themselves in April 1967. The officials in question, Mayor Taylor and Councilmen Cleland and Myers, were elected to terms which were to run from May 11, 1965 to May 14,…