Detroit Municipal Employees Ass'n v. City of Detroit

The Detroit Municipal Employees Association is a nonprofit corporation, formed to promote the general welfare of its members and city employees. The association brought these two actions at law as assignee of 1,584 city employees to recover a deduction from their pay during May and June, 1932, under a city ordinance approved April 20, 1932. The cases were consolidated for trial by jury and at .the conclusion of the proofs the court directed a verdict for plaintiff, in one case for $64,272.79, and in the other for $77,619.75. Defendant appeals.

At the time of the adoption of the ordinance, by…