HAMILTON v. AUTAUGA COUNTY

7 Div. 909.

268 So.2d 30 (1972)

Hoyt B. HAMILTON and Association of County Commissions of Alabama v. AUTAUGA COUNTY et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

Rehearing Denied November 9, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Oakley W. Melton, Jr., Montgomery, Gerald C. Swann, Ashville, for appellants.

William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Leslie Hall, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.


BLOODWORTH, Justice.

The appeal in this case is from a final decree in a declaratory judgment proceeding wherein an act, providing that sheriffs be compensated by an annual salary, was held to be constitutional when freed of its unconstitutional exceptions.

The bill of complaint sought a declaratory judgment as to the constitutionality of Act No. 1170, Acts of Alabama, 1969, p. 2179, appvd. Sept. 13, 1969, and prayed that the counties of Alabama be permanently...

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