California Supreme Court July 27, 1904, S.F. No. 3715. (Tucker v. Barnum)

lead-opinion

HENSHAW, J.

Mandamus. Plaintiff is a justice of the peace of the fifth judicial township of Fresno County, and seeks a writ of mandate commanding the defendant, as auditor of said county, to allow his claim for the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars, being his alleged compensation for trying forty criminal cases during the month of March, 1903, at the rate of three dollars for