Feavel v. City of Appleton

The action was brought under sec. 269.56, Stats., — the Declaratory Judgments Act, — for the purpose of having determined whether the plaintiffs, as aldermen of the city of Appleton, should be paid salaries at the rate of $500 per annum, or $250 per annum. It was agreed by the parties that the allegations of the complaint and certain additional allegations of the answer, should be taken as true and should constitute the stipulated facts. So many of those facts as are relevant to the questions of law presented, will be briefly summarized. In the year 1937, the common council of the city of…