Hodnett v. Yalobusha County

Citations

• 128 Miss. 772
• 91 So. 454

Syllabus

<p>1. Schools and School Districts. Board of supervisors not empowered to change amount of school superintendent’s salary fixed hy statute.</p> <p>Where the salary of a county superintendent of education is by statute definitely fixed at five per cent, of the school fund of the county, the board of supervisors has no discretionary power to change the amount allowed by the statute.</p> <p>2. Schools and School Districts. Allowance by supervisors to county superintendent of less compensation than 'fixed by statute held not to preclude him from claiming full amount.</p> <p>In such case an allowance by the hoard of less than the amount fixed by statute is not an adjudication binding upon the superintendent, nor is the superintendent estopped from claiming the full payment of amount fixed by the statute.</p>