Ponsa Parés v. Winship

By an Act (No. 57) approved April 28, 1930 (Session Laws, p. 414) the Insular Legislature created a new district *872court and authorized the appointment of a number of officers for a period of four years at fixed salaries. Among the officers to be appointed was a district prosecuting attorney at a salary of $3,850. During subsequent years a legislature appropriated amounts insufficient for the payment of these salaries as fixed by the Act of 1930. Several of the officers appointed under the provisions of that act have heretofore been held entitled to the difference between the amounts due under…