Hunter v. Conner

This appeal involves the validity of chapter 101 of the Acts of 1921, to fix the salaries of certain county officials, and provide for the disposition of the fees of their office. Four previous acts, intended to transfer fees to the public treasury and compensate officials by a fixed salary, were declared void.

Chapter 8 of Acts of 1879 was held void because viola-tive of article 2, section 17, of the Constitution, in State v. McCann, 4 Lea, 14.

Chapter 124, Acts of 1897, was declared void in Weaver v. Davidson County, 104 Tenn., 316, 59 S. W., 1105, because it circumscribed the authority of…