Coleman v. Kansas City

Coleman, as trustee for sixty-four city employees who assigned to him their claims for salary for the months of January, February, March and April, 1939 (last four months of the city fiscal year of 1938), brought this action and recovered judgment in the circuit court of Jackson County for the sum of $21,397.63. The defendant city has appealed.

It is admitted that each assignor was duly appointed to, and performed the services of, his respective position during the four months in question and has not received the salary for which he sued; also that the rate of pay for which each assignor sued…