McDowell v. Burnett
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Petition in the original jurisdiction of this Court by B. b. McDowell for writ of mandamus against T. C. Burnett, county supervisor, and F. Graham Payne, county treasurer, to require them to pay petitioner the salary of the office of magistrate for Greenwood county.
1Opinion of the Court
February 26, 1912. The opinion of the Court was delivered by In this application for a writ of mandamus requiring the respondents to pay to the petitioner the salary attached to the office of magistrate for the city of Greenwood, the petitioner alleged: "That on the ____ day of ____, 1910, W.G. Austin, who was a magistrate duly appointed and qualified for Greenwood, in the county of Greenwood, died, and thereafter, to wit, on the ____ day of February, 1910, W.H. Kerr was appointed, pursuant to the statute in such case made and provided, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the said…
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