WOOD v. SHELBY COUNTY


581 S.W.2d 31 (1979)

Sammy WOOD, County Judge Executive, Appellant, v. SHELBY COUNTY, Kentucky, Fiscal Court of Shelby County, Consisting of Roger L. Bailey, James Shaddock, Stewart Demaree, Jack Frazier, Robert Walters, Hubert Gordon, and Edward Masters, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Kentucky.

April 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Coomes, Coomes, Coomes & Coomes, New Castle, for appellant.

James Hite Hays, Shelbyville, for appellees.

Before MARTIN, C.J., and HOWERTON and LESTER, JJ.


HOWERTON, Judge.

Wood appeals from a judgment of the Shelby Circuit Court dismissing his petition for a Writ of Mandamus. Wood argues that mandamus was the proper procedure and remedy, and that the Shelby County Fiscal Court is required by statute to fix his annual salary between certain maximum and minimum limits, and no less than $16,768.80.

On April 26, 1977, the fiscal court set the county judge executive's salary for the period of January 1, 1978, through...

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