Adams v. City of Omaha

The question in this case is whether a city of the metropolitan class has the power to regulate the compensation of firemen, or the state has reserved to itself that power and has fixed their compensation. The Banning Act gave all cities of the state having a population of 5,000 or more general powers of- self-government. Section 11 of the Banning Act (Laws 1911, ch. 24) provides that the city council shall have “all executive or legislative or judicial powers and duties hitherto held, possessed or exercised under the then existing laws governing any such city, by the mayor or mayor and city…