Niswonger v. City of Cincinnati

This comes to us as an appeal on questions of law in a matter in which the plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment.

It is a class action brought by a detective on active duty and a retired detective of the Crime Bureau of the Division of Police of the city of Cincinnati against that city seeking a declaratory judgment that they and the defendants (other than Wichman, Sandman and Schrotel), who were or are detectives on the day shift in the crime bureau, were entitled to be paid for their one-half hour lunch period, amounting to two and one-half hours per week, from June 17, 1960, which is six…