STATE EX REL. LONGANACRE v. CRABTREE

No. 17265.

350 S.E.2d 760 (1986)

STATE ex rel. Hon. Louis E. LONGANACRE, et al. v. Paul CRABTREE, etc., and Glen B. Gainer, Jr., etc.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

November 20, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Edward Nogay, Sellitti & Nogay, Weirton, for appellant.

Lucy Norrow Huey, Charleston, for appellees.


MILLER, Chief Justice:

In this original proceeding in mandamus, magistrates from Greenbrier, Hancock, Marshall, and Mingo counties claim that the statute setting their salaries, W.Va.Code, 50-1-3, violates equal protection principles.1 Under this statute, magistrate salaries are set based on the population served. The population served figure is determined by dividing the number of magistrates authorized in a county into the total population...

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