Rock v. City of Pittsfield

The plaintiffs in these three cases are respectively a member of the police department, the fire department, and the labor service of the city of Pittsfield, and are all within the protection of the civil service law. G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 31, as amended. They were paid for the first three months of 1943 at the rates in force prior to an ordinance increasing their pay, enacted on October 27, 1942, to take effect on January 1, 1943, and now seek to recover the additional pay for the first three months of 1943 to which that ordinance purported to entitle them. *349The judge found for the plaintiffs,…