Jones v. County of Winnebago

Mr. Presiding Justice Huffman

delivered the opinion of the court.

A.ppellees Jones and Bates were deputy sheriffs of appellant county. When they first began working as such officers, their salaries were $150 per month. This rate of pay continued until some time during the summer of 1932, when it was reduced to $135 per month. Appellees were serving as jailors at the county jail. The board of supervisors at its September meeting, 1932, reduced the appropriation for jailor’s salaries from $5,400 (which it had been the previous year), to the sum of $4,830, and appellees’ monthly salaries were…