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WRIGHT v. WATERLOO WATER WORKS

No. 90-1730.

493 N.W.2d 889 (1992)

Clara WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. WATERLOO WATER WORKS and the Water Works Board of Trustees, Reed Craft and Dick Main, Defendants-Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Iowa.

October 27, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Mann, Jr., Austin, TX, for plaintiff-appellant.

Larry J. Cohrt of Swisher & Cohrt, Waterloo, for defendants-appellees.

Considered by OXBERGER, C.J., and DONIELSON and HABHAB, JJ.

HABHAB, Judge.

FACTS

On July 9, 1979, Clara Wright, a black woman, began employment with the Waterloo Water Works as a customer service clerk. The utility is municipally-owned and operated by a board of trustees. In January of 1987, Wright read an article in the Waterloo Courier listing the salaries of the clerical workers at the utility. According to the article, Wright was paid twenty cents less per hour than her coworkers. Wright met with Reed...

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