Chappell v. Kilgore

Grice, Justice.

Kilgore, the sheriff and jailer of Carroll County, obtained mandamus against ChappeH, the Commissioner of Roads and Revenues of Carroll County, to compel the payment of the salary provided for by the act approved February 25, 1943, entitled “An act to fix a salary for the jailer of Carroll County, Georgia,” etc. (Ga. Laws 1943, p. 856). The case was tried on the pleadings on a stipulation of counsel that no issue of fact was involved. The defendant attacked the validity of the cited act, as a special law in a case for which provision has been made by an existing general law,…