Burke v. Oates, Commissioner of Revenue

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Fulton

Affirming.

This appeal questions the correctness of a -declaratory judgment denying Thomas F. Burke, Tax Commis sioner of Jefferson County, the right to pay for fluorescent lighting fixtures for his office out of compensation earned by him over and above the compensation of himself and his deputies.

The fiscal court furnished appellant an office lighted in the usual and ordinary manner but as he was engaged in making a complete plat of each parcel of real estate in the county he conceived that the work could be more efficiently performed if fluorescent…