Talbott v. Burke

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner—

Affirming.

The case involves the primary question of the right -of a public officer to compel the State Treasurer to pay him a portion of tbe salaries, fees and expenses of bis office after tbe appropriation made for such purpose by tbe Legislature has been exhausted.

Be-enacting a previous statute, except only to raise the amount theretofore allowed, the 1940 General Assembly (Chapter 167, Session Acts; Section 4072 of the Statutes Supplement 1940) provided that the Tax Commissioner in counties containing cities of the first class shall be allowed…