UNION COUNTY v. SEXTON


276 S.W.2d 6 (1954)

UNION COUNTY, Tennessee, et al., v. Bernice SEXTON.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

Rehearing denied March 11, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chas. S. Kitts, Maynardville, for the appellants.

L.C. Morton, Privette & Morton, Charles H. Davis, Knoxville, and Knox Bigham, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


NEIL, Chief Justice.

Bernice Sexton is the duly appointed Clerk of the Chancery Court of Union County, Tennessee. She filed her original bill in the Chancery Court against Union County, Charles Kitts, County Judge of said county, and Roy H. Beeler, Attorney General, charging that the Clerk and Master's compensation was increased by the provisions of Chapter 263 of the Public Acts of 1951 to the sum of $2,400 per year; that though demand was made on Union County and...

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