Wall v. Morris
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Gower. Crisp superior court. June %, 1919. J. B. Wall, solicitor-general of the Cordele Circuit, brought his petition against the clerk of the superior court of Crisp county, the commissioners of that county, and certain banks, depositories for the county, which exercised and performed certain duties of the county treasurer, which latter office had been abolished.
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Equitable petition. Before Judge Gower. Crisp superior court. June %, 1919. J. B. Wall, solicitor-general of the Cordele Circuit, brought his petition against the clerk of the superior court of Crisp county, the commissioners of that county, and certain banks, depositories for the county, which exercised and performed certain duties of the county treasurer, which latter office had been abolished. Petitioner sought, as a part of the relief prayed for, an injunction against the clerk of the superior court to restrain him from paying to the county depositories certain funds in his hands, arising…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
1. The constitution of 1877, article 6, section 13, paragraph 1 (Civil Code, § 6533), provides as follows: “The judges of the Supreme Court shall have, out of the treasury of the State, salaries not to exceed three thousand dollars per annum; the judges of the superior courts shall have salaries not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum; the attorney-general shall have a salary not to exceed two thousand dollars per annum; and the solicitors-general each shall have salaries not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; but the attorney-general shall not have any fee or perquisite…
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