Ellis v. Tulare County

Citations

• 5 Cal. Unrep. 327
• 44 P. 575
• 1896 Cal. LEXIS 1064

Syllabus

<p>Counties—Supervisors as Road Commissioners—Compensation, By Political Code, sections 2641, 2645, as amended by Statutes of 1893, page 113, county supervisors are made ex-officio road commissioners in their respective districts, and their compensation for such services is therein fixed, “when not otherwise provided by law.” By the county government act (Stats. 1891, p. 295, see. 173, subsee. 15), the compensation of supervisors in counties of the eleventh class is fixed at six dollars per day for actual service, and certain mileage; and section 216 provides that the salaries and fees provided in the act shall be in full compensation for all services rendered, either as officers or ex-officio officers. Held, that the compensation of supervisors in counties of the eleventh class, while acting as road commissioners, is provided for by the county government act, and fixed at six dollars per day, and is therefore not affected by the provisions of code, section 2645.1</p>