State Ex Rel. Jacobsmeyer v. Thatcher.

Mandamus instituted by the relator as clerk of the Circuit Court of St. Louis County against respondents as judges of the county court of that county to compel the payment of a claimed arrearage in his official salary.

The issues tendered by our alternative writ issued herein may in substance be stated as follows: The relator was elected to the office at the general election in 1934, and assumed the duties thereof on January 7, 1935. The respondents, as constituting the county court, paid relator monthly out of the county treasury, for the first five months of 1935, compensation at the rate of…