Snyder v. City of St. Paul

Loring, Justice.

This case comes here on plaintiff’s appeal from an order denying her motion for a new trial. She brought the suit as a taxpayer of the city of St. Paul in behalf of herself and others similarly situated to restrain the city and the named officers from expending certain funds from the public treasury of the city in payment of claims for back pay by city employes.

In 1925 the city adopted the so-called “Cost-of-Living Wage-Scale” ordinance, under which compensation paid in the year 1916 was taken as the base scale, to which was added the percentage increase in the cost of living…