DOHERTY v. WOBURN


345 Mass. 523 (1963)

188 N.E.2d 866

CHARLES A. DOHERTY & others vs. CITY OF WOBURN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

March 1, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James F. Freeley, Jr., for the plaintiffs.

James F. Lawton, Jr., City Solicitor, for the defendant.

Present: WILKINS, C.J., SPALDING, CUTTER, KIRK, & REARDON, JJ.


CUTTER, J.

This is an action at law in seventy counts,1 each of which is in behalf of a particular plaintiff employed by the city's department of public works (the department). Each employee seeks to recover the excess of (a) the wages to which the employee claims to be entitled by virtue of action of the Woburn city council in 1958 and 1959, over (b) the wages actually paid to the employee in accordance with the rates in effect prior...

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