Arnold v. Cass County

The appellants in this case were members of the commissioners’ court of Cass county during' the year 1923. Their terms of office expired on the last day of January, 1924. Prior to an act adopted by the Thirty-Eighth Legislature, their compensation was fixed, at $100 per month. During that session articles 6901a and 6901d, of Rev. St. 1911, as enacted by Acts 35th Leg., 4th Called Sess., c. 29, were amended, and based the compensation of commissioners upon the assessed values of their respective counties. The effect of that act was to reduce the compensation of the appellants from $1,200 per…