Doherty v. City of Woburn

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). Bach 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 to the council action. An auditor made findings, which by stipulation have been treated as final and as constituting all the material facts. The case has been reported…