La Belle v. Hazard

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the legal right of a public official to receive or enforce the payment of compensation to that official “goes with” the official’s legal title to the office
• holding that where de jure officer in no way acquiesced in his removal from office, he is entitled to the salary of the office regardless of whether a de facto officer has already been paid by the governmental body

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).