Case Name: Charles H. Moore et al. v. The Board of Auditors of Wayne County
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1892-02-10
Citations: 90 Mich. 269
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles H. Moore et al. v. The Board of Auditors of Wayne County.
Judges: 
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 90
Pages: 269–270

Head Matter:
Charles H. Moore et al. v. The Board of Auditors of Wayne County.
Officers — Deputy game and fish wardens — Salary.
The board of auditors of Wayne county, under section 7 of Act No. 28, Laws of 1887 (3 How. Stat. § 2197a;), which authorizes them to fix the compensation of deputy game and fish wardens, have the power to fix such compensation for each year at such sums as to them may seem proper.
Mandamus.
Submitted February 2, 1892.
Denied February 3,
and opinion filed February 10, 1892.
Relators applied for mandamxis to compel tbe respondent to issue warrants on the county treasurer for their salary as deputy game and fish wardens at the rate of $1,000 per year.
W. F. Atkinson, for relators.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
Moore and two others are regularly appointed deputy game and fish wardens for Wayne county. They do not show when either of them was appointed.
The petition for mandamus sets forth that May 23, 1887, the board of auditors fixed the salary of their offices at $1,000 per year, which salary was continued up to January 1, 1892; that said board has undertaken to fix the salary for the present year at $300. Relators claim that they are State officers, and that the board, after fixing the salary at $1,000, has no power to change it.
It is not necessary to decide whether the relators are State officers. Under the act by yirtue of which these gentlemen hold their offices it is provided that they shall receive such compensation as the board of auditors may allow. No brief is presented, and we can see no reason why this compensation cannot be fixed by the members of the board for each year at such sums as to them may seem proper.
Writ denied.
Act No. 28, Laws of 1887, § 7.