Lycett v. Wolff

— This case is here on the defendant’s appeal. The plaintiff' was elected to the office of circuit clerk of St. Louis county, at the November election, 1878. He was inducted into office on the first day of January, 1879, and performed the duties pertaining to such position for the term of four years. In the petition it was alleged that the plaintiff, as such clerk, was entitled under the law to receive out of the fees earned by him during his term of office the sum of $9,000, that is a yearly salary of $2,250 ; that, during the time he held the office, he only received of the fees collected…