State ex rel. Scott v. Trousdale

By the Court,

Belknap, J.:

At the general election held in November, 1878, relator was elected a county commissioner of the county of Humboldt for the period of four years from the first Monday in January, 1879. He duly qualified, and on the last-named day entered upon the duties of his office, and has ever since continued to perform the same.

At the first meeting of the- board of county commissioners in the year 1879, the compensation of its members was fixed at six hundred dollars per annum, payable in *358equal quarterly payments of one hundred and fifty dollars. The board allowed relator’s claim…