64 Miss. 312 | Miss. | 1886
delivered the opinion of the court.
The jury accepted as true the testimony that one dollar per month was not adequate compensation for the services rendered, and there was no effort to show neglect of duty or want of qualification on the part of appellee, or that the services of a competent physician could have been secured for the reduced salary.
It appears that the action of appellants in reducing the salary of the chief health officer of their county from fifteen dollars to one dollar per month was intended to dispense with the office in that county altogether, and that practically it was an ouster by indirection of appellee from the office which had been created, and to which he had been appointed by an authority higher than the board of supervisors. Such action was a nullity, and the salary previously fixed by the board was not thereby changed.
On the facts of record the result reached in the court below was right, and the judgment is affirmed.