State ex rel. Cabell County Deputy Sheriff's Ass'n v. Dunfee

Harshbarger, Justice:

This is an appeal by the Cabell County Deputy Sheriffs Association from an order of the circuit court of that county denying a petition for mandamus filed by the association. The controversy arose when the sheriff reduced the monthly pay of his deputy sheriffs by $100, effective January 16, 1975. The deputy sheriffs were paid $725 monthly from July 1, 1974, to January 15, 1975. Then their salaries were reduced. The County Deputy Sheriffs Civil Service Commission heard the deputies’ complaint and found the reduction unlawful and ordered payment of the back pay to the…