Breathitt County v. Cockrell, Jailer

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Richardson

Affirming in part and reversing in part.

This ease portrays the evil of the law’s mistake in authorizing and permitting a governmental unit to issue warrants as evidence of its floating obligations. It depicts the sequence of the General Assembly’s omission io provide by an enactment a method of reporting and accounting for, at stipulated periods, the fees and salaries collected by officials whose salaries are not fixed "by law, as contemplated by section 246 of the State Constitution. .

At the November election, 1929, S. J. Cockrell and Lee Combs were…