Wood v. Chickasaw County
Wood v. Chickasaw County
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The attorney-general, for the county, submits this case without argument.
We think appellant’s claim for salary should have been allowed. The courts were duly opened and organized at the proper time and place in the separate court districts of Chickasaw county. Appellant was at his post; but the court, after
Reversed and remanded.
Reference
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- Houston G. Wood v. Chickasaw County
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- Stenographers, Official. Salary. Opening court. Pretermission of term. Code 1893, (j 4242. An official • stenographer, attending the opening of a term of the circuit court, and ready to perform his official duties, is entitled, under Code 1892, § 4242, regulating the subject, to one week’s salary where the term was thereafter pretermitted, although the trial of no case was begun.