Perkins v. Sims

The regular members of the Court of Appeals having declined to sit in these cases, such fact was certified to his Excellency, the Honorable Bert Combs, Governor of the Commonwealth, who thereupon appointed and commissioned as Special Judges of the Court of Appeals to hear the appeals, D. Bernard Coughlin, as Chief Justice, and Neville Moore, Robert M. Coleman, Bernard B. Davis, Leo T. Wolford, Victor A. Bradley, and Fred G. Francis, as Associate Justices.

These are suits by taxpayers to recover sums from four regular judges of the Court of Appeals. The taxpayers contend that the judges were…