State ex rel. Landanger v. Madison County Board of Commissioners

This appeal involves the single question of whether the increase in fees as provided for in the amendment to Neb. Rev. Stat. §33-117 (Reissue 1978), adopted by the Nebraska Legislature (1980 Neb. Laws, L.B. 628), which increased from $3 to $10 per day the fees to be paid by the county to the sheriff *34as jailer when there are prisoners confined in the county jail, may be collected by the appellant, Marlin Landanger, the sheriff of Madison County, Nebraska, during his existing term as sheriff. The sheriff maintains that the increase in fee is due and owing to him as jailer, and not as sheriff.…