RAPP v. GIBSON

Docket No. L.A. 25107.

51 Cal.2d 467 (1959)

334 P.2d 575

LEO D. RAPP, Appellant, v. VERA K. GIBSON et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

February 2, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Palmer, Wall & Raymond and Oran W. Palmer for Appellant.

Vera K. Gibson, Albert E. Burton, Joshua H. Hanks, J. Perry Brite, Stanley A. Newman, Charles S. Dumble, LeRoy F. Galyen and Charles H. Shomate, in pro. per., Roy Gargano, County Counsel (Kern), and Dennis McCarthy, Assistant County Counsel, for Respondents.

J.F. Coakley, District Attorney (Alameda), Douglas R. Dunning, Assistant District Attorney, Francis W. Collins, District Attorney (Contra Costa), Clyde H. Larimer, District Attorney (Glenn), William B. McKesson, District Attorney (Los Angeles), Lester J. Gendron, District Attorney (Madera), Leland H. Jordan, County Counsel (Marin), William O. Mackey, District Attorney (Riverside), John B. Heinrich, County Counsel (Sacramento), Richard W. Dickenson, County Counsel (San Joaquin), H.C. Grundell, District Attorney (San Luis Obispo), Keith C. Sorenson, District Attorney (San Mateo), Vern B. Thomas, District Attorney (Santa Barbara), Spencer M. Williams, County Counsel (Santa Clara), James M. Shumway, County Counsel (Solano), Richard M. Ramsey, County Counsel (Sonoma), Frederick W. Reyland, Jr., County Counsel (Stanislaus), Scott K. Carter, District Attorney (Tuolumne), and Roy A. Gustafson, District Attorney (Ventura), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.


TRAYNOR, J.

Plaintiff, the auditor of Kern County, brought this action for declaratory relief against all of the incumbent elective officers of that county to determine the effective date of a salary ordinance adopted by the Board of Supervisors of Kern County on December 31, 1957, increasing the compensation of these officers. The officers contend that the increase became effective on February 1, 1958, as provided in the ordinance. The auditor contends that the California...

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