BATES v. CITY OF JENKINS


322 S.W.2d 475 (1959)

Jesse BATES, Appellant, v. CITY OF JENKINS, Kentucky, a City of the Fourth Class, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

March 20, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry M. Caudill, Whitesburg, for appellant.

Leroy W. Fields, Whitesburg, for appellees.


MILLIKEN, Judge.

The appellant, Jesse Bates, who was elected police judge of the City of Jenkins, a fourth class city, at the November, 1957, regular election, brought this action to mandamus the city to pay him a salary of $200 a month instead of at the rate of $100 a month. The case turns on whether the City Council effectively reduced the $200 monthly salary established for the office by ordinance in 1929.

The record in this case displays some poor municipal...

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