Harbert v. County Court of Harrison County

Haymond, Judge:

In this proceeding in mandamus, instituted in the Circuit Court of Harrison County, West Virginia, the petitioner, the Honorable Arlos J. Harbert, Judge of the Criminal Court of Harrison County, seeks a peremptory writ to require the respondents, the County Court of Harrison County, its individual members and its clerk, to pay him an annual salary of $5,000.00 instead of $4,000.00, from June_8, 1945, as provided by Chapter 163 of the Acts of the Legislature, Regular Session, 1945. The petitioner relies upon that statute and upon an earlier statute, Chapter 82 of the Acts of the…