Baker v. Allen

Appellant, for himself and for the benefit of all other citizens and taxpayers of Independence county, brought this suit to recover certain fees alleged to have been paid to and to have been collected by appellee without authority of law. He predicates his suit upon an initiated salary act enacted by the electors of Independence county at the 1936 general election. Among its other provisions this Act provided for the separation of the offices of sheriff and collector, and fixed a salary of $2,400, payable in monthly installments of $200, for each office. Section 6 of this Act reads as…