Rau v. City of Little Rock

The appellant, Louis Rau, sought, by his action, to recover from the city of Little Rock the sum of $1,560.83, which he claimed as a balance due him on salary as late city clerk.

The complaint alleged that he was appointed city clerk by the city council, on the twelfth day of April, 1875, at a salary of $200 per month, and he held the office and performed its duties from that date until the thirty-first day of December, 1876, and was entitled to receive, for the time he so served, the aggregate sum of $4,120, but had receivedv only $2,559.17.

The city, in its answer, denied that the salary had…