Coleman v. Kansas City

The respondent, as trustee, filed this action on behalf of numerous employees of the appellant to recover the difference between the salary received by each employee and the amount that he claimed they should have received under an ordinance fixing the salaries of’’its various employees from January 1, 1929, to May 1, 1939. The trial court found that 105 of the assignors were not entitled to recover, denied a recovery for any salaries beyond five years prior to the filing of this action, and allowed a recovery for non-ordinance salary reductions within the five-year period of the Statute of…