In re Appointment & Fixing of Salary of Controller's Clerks by Salary Board

Cummins, J.,

This is an appeal by the county controller from the action of the salary board, first, in refusing him a field clerk, and, second, in refusing an increase of salary to another clerk.

This case involves the determination of the correct relation and proper functioning between the board of county commissioners and the office of county controller; it involves, likewise, a novel situation. Stripped of all its legal technicalities, it simply amounts to this: The county commissioners are authorized by law, as the county's fiscal agents, to make her contracts, to spend her money; to check…