Ballangee v. Co. Com., Fremont Co.

OPINION.

This is an action which involves the questions as to whether or not a county treasurer who was appointed to fill a vacancy is entitled, under our Constitution, to an increased salary provided by the legislature previously and, if so, whether or not he is estopped from claiming such increase by reason of an agreement to receive the lower salary or by reason of his constant acceptance of the latter.

The plaintiff herein was S.A. Ballangee. It appears herein, and it was alleged in the petition, that Fremont County of this State was at the times here mentioned, a county of the second…