Riggs v. Pfister
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Jno. Gill Shorter. Amand P. Pfister applied to the Circuit Court of Montgomery, for a mandamus against Joel Riggs, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Alabama, commanding him to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, in favor of said Pfister, for fifty dollars, the amount claimed by said Pfister as his quarter salary as Quarter Master General of the State, for the quarter ending April 20, 1852.…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Montgomery. Tried before the Hon. Jno. Gill Shorter. Amand P. Pfister applied to the Circuit Court of Montgomery, for a mandamus against Joel Riggs, Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Alabama, commanding him to draw his warrant on the State Treasurer, in favor of said Pfister, for fifty dollars, the amount claimed by said Pfister as his quarter salary as Quarter Master General of the State, for the quarter ending April 20, 1852. Riggs appeared by his counsel, and resisted the motion; but the Circuit Court decided that Pfister was entitled to the…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
— This was a motion in the court below, by Pfister against Riggs, the Comptroller, for a mandamus, requiring the latter to issue his warrant on the treasury for fifty *470dollars, alleged to be due to Pñster as his quarter salary as Quarter Master General, ending the 20th April, 1852. The Circuit Court granted the writ, and the Comptroller seeks a revision and reversal of the judgment, and insists by his counsel, that the law granting $200 as a salary to the Quarter Master General has been repealed, and different provision for his compensation provided by the legislature at its session of 1851-2.
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