Evans v. Long

GARDNER, Justice.

Petitioner is chief deputy sheriff of Walker county, and seeks by this proceeding the payment of his salary as fixed by a local law (Log. Acts 1923, p. 319) at the sum of $1,800 per annum, payable in equal monthly installments out of the county treasury. Such is the entire substance of the local law, and the matter of its constitutional validity lies at the threshold of petitioner’s case.

The act is here assailed by respondent as violative of section 105 of our present Constitution, and petitioner, expressly waiving any question concerning the formality of its presentment,…