Poyner v. Houston County

Supreme Court of Alabama

Poyner v. Houston County

178 So. 535, 235 Ala. 304, 1938 Ala. LEXIS 31

CourtSupreme Court of Alabama

DecidedJanuary 27, 1938

Docket4 Div. 998.

StatusPublished

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Poyner v. Houston County, 178 So. 535, 235 Ala. 304, 1938 Ala. LEXIS 31 (Ala. 1938).

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Opinion

BOULDIN, Justice.

Section 281 of the Constitution forbidding any decrease in the salary of a public" officer during the term for which he was elected or appointed, as well as section 150, specially relating to judicial officers, is for the protection of the incumbent.

An appointee to fill an unexpired term takes the salary prescribed by law at the time of his appointment. State v. Gunter, 170 Ala. 165, 176, 54 So. 283.

Judge Halstead, appointed in October, 1934, to fill an unexpired term, took the, salary fixed by the Act of 1933, Gen. Acts, Extra Session, pp. 124, 129, regardless of the validity vel non of the Sparks Amendment, Const.Amend.No.26A, art. 24, see Gen.Acts 1933, Ex.Sess., p. 46. He has, therefore, no disqualifying interest in a cause pending in his court wherein the va lidity of such amendment is presented as an issue.

Mandamus denied.

ANDERSON, C. J., and GARDNER and FOSTER, JJ., concur.

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