Masters v. State Ex Rel. Bell

This case is before us on writ of error from an order of the Circuit Court for Charlotte County in mandamus proceedings commanding the Board of Public Instruction of said county to assemble at the court house in Punta Gorda and audit and pay the salary of W. E. Bell as Superintendent of Public Instruction in the sum of $450.00; said amount being ascertained to be the remainder due on said salary for the scholastic year from June 30, 1928, to June 30, 1929; which judgment was rendered August 16, 1930.

In his petition for writ of mandamus, which was filed July 3, 1930, the relator, W. E. Bell,…