Lemaster v. City of Green Rock

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court;

Plaintiff Augustus Lemaster filed a complaint for declaratory-judgment, injunction and writ of mandamus against defendants city of Green Rock and its clerk, Martha Sawyer, alleging that certain payments constituted an unlawful increase in her salary. After a hearing on the merits and other determinations not germane to this appeal, the circuit court of Henry County entered summary judgment in defendants’ favor.

In April 1979, Sawyer was elected city clerk of Green Rock, and she received a monthly salary for serving in this part-time…