Weisfield v. City of Seattle

Seattle, a city of the first class, for some years had, and still has, an initiative ordinance fixing the salary rates of civil service employees or officers in class “C” of the police department and class “D” of the fire department. A. large number of such officers were induced to give purported waivers of portions of their monthly salaries from July 1, 1932, to July 1, 1934. One of such officers was ft. B. Wells, of the fire department, the validity of whose waiver was litigated, wherein it was determined in State ex rel. Knez v. Seattle, 176 Wash. 283, 28 P. (2d) 1020, 33 P. (2d) 905, that…