Valle v. Shaffer

The petitioner applied to the superior court for a writ of mandate to compel the auditor of San Diego County to draw his warrant in favor of petitioner on the county treasurer for fifty dollars claimed to be due petitioner for one month’s salary as health officer of said county. A demurrer to the petition was sustained, and from the judgment following the petitioner appeals.

The board of supervisors of said county appointed petitioner health officer of said county and fixed his compensation at six hundred dollars a year, or fifty dollars a month. The question for solution relates to the…