Callahan v. Town of Athol

This is an action of contract to recover an additional day’s pay for each of forty-two holidays on which the plaintiff worked as chief of police of the town of Athol. The facts are agreed and a judge of the Superior Court reported the case without decision.

*573The plaintiff was employed as a police officer by the town in 1920. In 1938, and annually thereafter, the board of selectmen appointed him “Chief of Police and Keeper of the Lock-Up” until his retirement in 1960. This appointment was made in accordance with town by-law c. Ill, § 9.1

The town voted to place its police officers under civil…