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WALKER v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

Docket No. L.A. 26039.

55 Cal.2d 626 (1961)

361 P.2d 247

12 Cal. Rptr. 671

BETTY WALKER et al., Respondents, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES et al., Appellants.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 20, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold W. Kennedy, County Counsel, William E. Lamoreaux, Assistant County Counsel, and Joel R. Bennett, Deputy County Counsel, for Appellants.

Joseph A. Ball, Milton L. Most, Sidney A. Cherniss, Cy H. Lemaire and Ball, Hunt & Hart for Respondents.

Bewley, Knoop, Lassleben & Whelan and Martin E. Whelan, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

DOOLING, J.

This is a representative suit by five county employees seeking declaratory relief and a writ of mandate to compel the board of supervisors first to ascertain and declare the prevailing salary or wage for the same quality of service rendered to private employers under similar employment; and then, in the light of such ascertainment, to adopt an ordinance providing for salary payments to all persons in the classified civil service equal at least to such...

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