Acuff v. Weaver
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Shelby County; E. J. Garrison, Judge. Motion by G. W. Weaver, as Judge of the County Court of Shelby County, for summary judgment against W. L. Acuff, as County Treasurer, for failure to pay warrant drawn in his favor for salary as such C'ounty Judge. From a decree granting the writ, the Treasurer appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Shelby County; E. J. Garrison, Judge. Motion by G. W. Weaver, as Judge of the County Court of Shelby County, for summary judgment against W. L. Acuff, as County Treasurer, for failure to pay warrant drawn in his favor for salary as such C'ounty Judge. From a decree granting the writ, the Treasurer appeals. The act has the effect to repeal the general act making all clerks of circuit courts ex officio clerks of county courts, and takes away all fees. This is not expressed in the title. The true purpose of the act was not otherwise specified in the title, and…
1Opinion of the Court
The general act approved September 18, 1915, provides:
"1. That all the fees allowed in the county court by sections 6655 and 6656 of the Code, or any other provisions of law, be and the same are hereby required to be paid into the county treasury as collected.
"2. That there shall be paid out of the county treasury to the judge of the county court an annual salary in equal monthly installments of three hundred dollars in counties having less than twenty-five thousand population and in counties having twenty-five thousand population and less than thirty-five thousand population four hundred and…
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