Hays v. Martin

Mr. Presiding Justice Boggs

delivered the opinion of the court.

Appellants, being citizens and tax-payers of White county, filed a bill for accounting, running to the May term, 1925, of the circuit court, against Matthew Martin, individually and as county clerk of said county, alleging that at the general election, 1906, appellee Martin was elected county clerk of said county, and was re-elected at each quadrennial election thereafter, and is now serving in said capacity; that appellee Martin’s salary for his first term was fixed by the county board at $800 per year, for his second .and third…