Clark v. Hammond
Supreme Court of Georgia
Mandamus. Before Judge Rawlings. Richmond superior court. Henry C. Hammond, being judge of the superior' courts of the Augusta circuit, instituted suit for a writ of mandamus against Walter A. Clark, as treasurer of Richmond county, to compel the payment of $166.66, alleged to be due for part of his salary as judge for the month of December, 1909. It was alleged that the petitioner was entitled to a salary of $5,000 per annum, $3,000 to be paid by the State and $2,000 by the…
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Mandamus. Before Judge Rawlings. Richmond superior court. Henry C. Hammond, being judge of the superior' courts of the Augusta circuit, instituted suit for a writ of mandamus against Walter A. Clark, as treasurer of Richmond county, to compel the payment of $166.66, alleged to be due for part of his salary as judge for the month of December, 1909. It was alleged that the petitioner was entitled to a salary of $5,000 per annum, $3,000 to be paid by the State and $2,000 by the county of Richmond, under certain acts of the legislature. The defendant fded a plea in bar and a demurrer, in which…
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. The law relied on as a basis for the writ of mandamus was the act approved August 6th, 1904 (Acts 1904, *793p. 73), as amended by the act approved August 15th, 1905 (Acts 1905, p. 100), and later by the act approved July 31st, 1906 (Acts 1906, p. 56). As thus amended the act declared, among other things, the following: “That the judges of the superior courts of all the judicial circuits, which are now or may hereafter be established in this State, having therein a city with a population of not less than 34,000 inhabitants, according to the United States census of 1900, shall receive a salary…
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