Allen v. City of Lawrence

These are nineteen actions of contract instituted by the plaintiffs in two counts, seeking to recover fifty cents a day at the rate of 6% cents an hour during a period of six years preceding the dates of the writs covering the years 1938 to 1943 inclusive while working in the Cemetery Department of the defendant city.

Count one is on a count annexed and the second count is on quantum meruit. The defendant in a lengthy answer set out many defenses, including general denial, payment, estoppel, loches, that the plaintiffs were not salaried employees, that payment in full had been accepted by the…