Beasley v. McCorkle

KNIGHT, Justice.

This is a proceeding instituted in the Circuit Court of Colbert County by R. L. McCorkle, appellee here, to require the appellant, Mayor of the City of Tuscumbia, Alabama, to approve a warrant drawn in petitioner’s favor by the clerk of said city, for salary due him as chief of police for a. specified number of days in June, 1938.

It is averred in the petition that the City Council on June 20th, 1938, by ordinance duly and legally passed and adopted, created the office of Chief of Police for said City of Tuscumbia, and that petitioner was duly appointed to the office by said…