Patteson v. City of Peoria

Plaintiffs, May H. Patteson, Hannah Dunne, Iva Hagerty, Grace Fleming, Elsie M. Dempsey and Irene McDonald, in an action at law against the city of Peoria, are seeking to recover the difference between the amounts paid them by said city and the sum of $175 per month for their services subsequent' to July 13, 1937, the effective date of the Policemen’s Minimum Wage Act. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1937, chap. 24, pars. 860a, 860b.) Each plaintiff alleged in the complaint that she was a member of the regularly constituted police department of the defendant city, sworn and commissioned to perform police…