State Ex Rel. Webb v. Pigg

This is an original proceeding in mandamus. Relator, the Clerk of the Spring'field Court of Appeals, seeks to compel the Comptroller of the Department of Revenue to approve and certify for payment the unpaid remainder of relator’s monthly salary claims, to wit, the additional sum of $75 per month for each and every month during the period from July 1, 1951 to December 31, 1951, inclusive, which additional sums are alleged to be due3 by reason of an increase in relator’s salary, as ordered by the Judges of the Springfield Court of Appeals and authorized by Laws 1949, p. 236, now Section…