Barry v. Treasurer of Essex County

This is a petition for a writ of mandamus brought by an employee of Essex County, seeking to require the respondent, the county treasurer, to recognize the petitioner’s job reclassification and to pay him the rate of increased compensation that such a reclassification requires. The respondent demurred to the petition on five grounds.1 The trial judge sustained the demurrer on the fourth ground, namely, that the reclassification is illegal, improper and un*767authorized by law. “If any ground of the demurrer is good it must be sustained.” Wade v. Ford Motor Co. 341 Mass. 596, 598. See Meskell v.…