Freshour v. McCanless

Chapter 316 of the Private Acts of 1953 created a General Sessions Court for Cocke County. It likewise created the office of clerk of that Court, and fixed the salary of this office, and provided that it be paid by the county and that all the fees of the office should be the property of the county. Chapter 135 of the Private Acts of 1955 increased this fixed salary of that clerk.

Curtis Freshour, who is clerk under that statute of this General Sessions Court, sought to have adjudged unconstitutional, and elided, that provision of these two acts fixing his salary at a specified sum and…