Case ID: ohio-st_110/html/0669-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The Board of Education of the City School District of the City of Cleveland v. Featherstone.
    
      Board of education — Compensation of cleric — Section 4181, General Code — Increase during term — Cleric not an “officer’’— Section 20, Article II, Constitution.
    
    (No. 18260
    Decided May 20, 1924.)
    Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county.
    Mr. Geo. W. Perry, assistant director of law, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Mr. William W. Dawson, for defendant in error.
   It is ordered and adjudged by this court that the judgment of the said Court of Appeals be and the same is hereby, affirmed for the reason that the election of the defendant in error by the board of education of the city school district of the city of West Park on January 5, 1920, as clerk of that board, did not confer upon him any function of sovereignty or constitute him an officer within the prohibition of Section '20, Article II of the Constitution of Ohio. The board of education under the power conferred by Section 4781, General Code, having in good faith fixed his compensation at the amounts which are here sought to be recovered, the receipt thereof by the defendant in error was not unlawful.

Judgment affirmed.

Marshall, C. J., Robinson, Jones, Matthias, Day and Allen, JJ., concur.

Wanamaker, J., not participating.