Anderson v. City of Jacksonville

W. H. Anderson and John Lawrence Blue instituted separate suits in the circuit court of Morgan county against the city of Jacksonville, seeking to recover monies claimed to be due them under the provisions of the Policemen’s Minimum Wage act. The amount for which recovery was sought was the difference between the sums they had been paid and the minimum salaries provided for in the act. (111. Rev. Stat. 1941, chap. 24, sec. 11-2.) The two cases were consolidated in the circuit court, because they are admittedly identical and in that court each plaintiff recovered the sum of $1375.

The city has…