Drolte v. Board of County Com'rs of Ellis County

The parties will be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiff was elected county clerk of Ellis county and assumed office in January, 1933, and under the provisions of section 7831, O. S. 1931, drew the sum of $150 per month to and including- the month of June, 1933. In September the State Board of Equalization certified to Ellis county the valuation as reduced below $9,000,000, and thereupon plaintiff was paid $112.50, within the terms of section 7870, O. S. 1931.

It is the contention of the plaintifi that (lie provisions of section 7831, supra, having applied when he assumed…