Smith v. City of Phillips
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Price county: U. N. Rxsjord, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of $425 from the city of Phillips for services claimed to be due him as city attorney of said'city from May 1, 1916, to September 30, 1917, at the rate of $25 per month.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Price county: U. N. Rxsjord, Circuit Judge. This action was brought by the plaintiff to recover the sum of $425 from the city of Phillips for services claimed to be due him as city attorney of said'city from May 1, 1916, to September 30, 1917, at the rate of $25 per month. The case was tried before the court upon the following stipulated facts: That plaintiff was duty elected city attorney at the regular spring election on April 4, 1916, for a term of two years; that on the first Tuesday of March, 1916, the common council of the city of Phillips…
1Opinion of the CourtSiebecker, C. J.
The stipulated facts show that the common council of the city failed to provide any salary for the city officers and employees at the regular February, 1916, meeting, and that such meeting was not adjourned to a fu*56ture date. It appears that the informal arrangement by the members of the council at the February, 1916, meeting to postpone action on the salary question did not constitute an adjournment of the February meeting, and Hence there is no basis for the claim that the regular March, 1916, meeting was an adjourned meeting of the regular February, 1916, meeting. The records of the March,…
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