TISDEL v. BD. OF COUNTY COM'RS, ETC.

No. 79SA308.

621 P.2d 1357 (1980)

Stephen A. TISDEL, District Attorney of the Sixteenth Judicial District of the State of Colorado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. The BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF the COUNTY OF BENT, State of Colorado: Glen Gill, Kenneth Kester and Thomas Pointon, in their respective capacities as individual members of said Board and individually; The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Crowley, State of Colorado: Oran Burmood, Charlie Caldwell and Loren A. Sober, in their respective capacities as individual members of said Board and individually; The Board of County Commissioners of the County of Otero, State of Colorado: Robert Bauserman, Garth Grenard and John J. Vess, in their respective capacities as individual members of said Board and individually, Defendants-Appellees.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

Rehearing Denied February 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cover Mendenhall, Mendenhall & Malouff, Rocky Ford, for plaintiff-appellant.

Fred E. Sisk, Las Animas, for defendant-appellee The Bd. of County Com'rs of Bent County.

Lawrence L. Fenton, Ordway, for defendant-appellee The Bd. of County Com'rs of Crowley County.

Rexford L. Mitchell, Rocky Ford, for defendant-appellee The Bd. of County Com'rs of Otero County.

Andrew A. Vogt, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado Dist. Attys. Council.

Perry L. Burnett, Denver, for amicus curiae Colorado Counties, Inc.

J. D. MacFarlane, Atty. Gen., David K. Rees, Asst. Atty. Gen., Denver, for intervenor.


DUBOFSKY, Justice.

The district attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District, Stephen A. Tisdel, appeals the decision of the district court that the County Commissioners for Bent, Crowley and Otero Counties could decrease his salary for the second year of his term of office. We reverse.

Stephen A. Tisdel was elected district attorney for the Sixteenth Judicial District on November 2, 1976, and began his four-year...

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