Antrim v. Civil Service Com'n of City of Des Moines

At all times here concerned plaintiffs were detectives in the Des Moines Police Department.

November 30, 1964, the city council adopted an ordinance effective March 8,1965, under which the positions held by certain municipal employees, including plaintiffs, were reclassified with attendant pay scale revisions.

Plaintiffs were granted a uniform increase in compensation but not equal to that accorded sergeants in the department. Historically they had drawn the same pay.

*398September 27, 1965, plaintiffs gave notice of appeal to the Civil Service Commission contending, as to them, the aforesaid pay…