Scott v. City of Lincoln

This is an appeal from an order sustaining a demurrer to plaintiff’s ^petition and a judgment dismissing his cause of action.

In 1913 plaintiff was in the employ of defendant city as a fireman, at a salary of $80 a month. The legislature that year passed an act, applicable to cities of defendant’s class, which provided: “No fireman, other than the chief and assistant chief of the fire department, shall be compelled or required to be on duty more than .twelve (12) hours continuously in any one day, and each fireman shall be entitled to twelve (12) consecutive hours of each day, alternating from…