Mayor of Hagerstown v. Startzman

The collector appointed by the municipality of Hagerstown to collect city taxes sued the Mayor and Council to recover compensation for services rendered by him in collecting the several amounts assessed upon the owners of lots abutting on certain streets which were paved by direction of the city au thorities, these amounts having been assessed to pay two-thirds of the cost of that paving. The collector, who is the appellee, was appointed in April, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, for the term of one year. The charter of the city provides that his compensation shall be fixed at the date of…