Legal Opinion
Openshaw v. City of Fall River
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided September 11, 1934PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDonahue, J.
The plaintiff, a police officer of the defendant city, beginning April 7, 1931, was paid twenty per cent less salary than he had received prior to that time. He here brings suit to recover the amount of the reduction in salary between that date and the date of his writ,' October 5, 1931. The case was tried on an agreed statement of facts before a judge of the Superior Court sitting without jury, who filed findings of fact and found for the defendant. The plaintiff excepted to certain inferences of fact made by the judge and to certain rulings made and to the refusal by the judge to make…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Commonwealth v. NickersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Paquette v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Broabhurst v. City of Fall RiverMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1932
- Bryant v. City of PittsfieldMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
- Alger v. Justice of the District CourtMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
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3Cited by16 opinions
- Commonwealth v. DoweMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1943
- Barnard v. City of LynnMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
- Commonwealth v. KimballMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- Gorman v. City of PeabodyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Coleman v. LouisonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936
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