State ex rel. Snodgrass v. Savage

Pee Cubiam.

On or about the 7th day of March, 1906, the county commissioners of Stevens county, pursuant to an act of the legislature of March 9, 1905 (Laws 1905, page 349), appointed the relator as game warden in and for said county, to succeed one John D. Slocum. The salary fixed by the commissioners for that office while occupied by Slocum was $25 per month. After the relator entered upon the discharge of his duties, the commissioners increased, or attempted to increase, the salary to $100 per month. The respondent refusing to issue a warrant for said salary, the relator instituted this…