City of Houston v. Albers

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

—Appellee brought this suit against the city of Houston to recover salary alleged to be due him as a policeman of said city from the 3d day of February, 1892, up to the date of the filing of the suit, at the rate of $85 per month, and also the value of fifteen days’ service rendered said city as policeman during the year 1901, the aggregate amount sued for being $663.87.

The defendant’s answer contained a general demurrer and general denial, and also various special exceptions and pleas the nature of which it is unnecessary to disclose further than to say that the…