State ex rel. Hovey v. Clausen

Citations

• 117 Wash. 475
• 201 P. 770
• 1921 Wash. LEXIS 880

Syllabus

<p>States (11) — Officers (43) — Salary—Increase During Term— Appointee for Unexpired Term — Statutes. Under Const., art. IV, § § 3, 13, fixing tbe terms of judges of tbe supreme court at six years from and after the second Monday in January next succeeding their election, and providing that the salaries of such judges “shall not be increased after their election, nor during the term for which they shall have been elected,” on the death of an incumbent who was barred from receiving the statutory increase during the term for which he was elected, a judge appointed to fill his unexpired term comes within the same constitutional inhibition against increase “during the term” for which his predecessor had been elected.</p>