McNichols v. City of Denver

THIS controversy, based upon an action brought under the Declaratory Judgments Act, involves the validity of Ordinance No. 113, Series of 1941, of the City and County of Denver, a home-rule city, in which the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, fixed by the Denver charter under the general laws of the state, is transferred, in the event of vacancies in the office of such justices, to associate municipal judges. the trial court, on the facts stipulated by the pleadings, found said ordinance to be valid, and ruled that the annual salary of associate municipal judges, while acting as justices…