Patteson v. City of Peoria

Appellants, each claiming to have been a member of the regularly constituted police department of the City of Peoria, filed a complaint in the circuit court of Peoria county against appellee, seeking judgment for the difference between the amounts paid them, respectively, and the sum of $175 each, per month, subsequent to July 13, 1937, the effective date of the Policemen’s Minimum Wage Act (111. Rev. Stat. 1939, eh. 24, pars. 860a, ’860b). The defendant’s motion to strike the complaint for an alleged misjoinder and insufficiencies was overruled, an answer was filed, and a motion of the…