Threlkeld v. Livingston Co. Fiscal Court
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 38 — Action by W. T. Threlkeld against Livingston County Fiscal Court for Fees as Jailer. APPEAL FROM LIVINGSTON CIRCUIT COURT-J. F. GORDON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. 1. A special term of the county court is a county court as much as a regular term.
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Case 38 — Action by W. T. Threlkeld against Livingston County Fiscal Court for Fees as Jailer. APPEAL FROM LIVINGSTON CIRCUIT COURT-J. F. GORDON, CIRCUIT JUDGE. Judgment for Defendant and Plaintiff Appeals. 1. A special term of the county court is a county court as much as a regular term. “When necessary special terms are proper,, and should be called, at which the jailer has the right to attend and receive pay. 2. The fees to which an officer is entitled constitute his salary. 3. An officer’s salary can not be decreased during his.term. 4. To allow the county judge to hold special terms of…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court by
JUDGE HOBSON
Affirming.
Appellant was elected jailer of Livingston county in 1897, and re-elected in 1901. He filed this suit on October 21, 1903, to recover of the county an account amounting to $904 for fees coming to him for special terms of tlie county and fiscal courts, alleging that the county judge failed to use the courtroom, in holding these special terms, without any legal reason, and held these terms in the county clerk’s office or in the county judge’s office, and thus prevented the plaintiff from giving his actual attendance upon these terms of court, though…
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