Graham v. City of Philadelphia

Opinion by

Gawthbop, J.,

Eleven separate suits in assumpsit were brought to the September Term of Court of Common Pleas No. 5 of Philadelphia County by employees of the Board of Inspectors of the Philadelphia County Prisons against the City of Philadelphia to recover the salary which each alleged to be due and unpaid for the first six months of the year 1924. Under a stipulation filed by counsel' and an order of the court below, the cases were consolidated and combined as one case and so tried. The undisputed facts are as follows: Plaintiffs are and were during the period, January 1, 1924, to…