Beakley v. City of Bremerton

This case involves the personal retention by a city attorney of funds allowed by the city for stenographic services, and also involves his right to employ his wife to do the stenographic work and to be paid by the city.

The complaint alleges that plaintiff, as city attorney for the city of Bremerton, was authorized by the city to employ clerical and stenographic help, and to pay for that service the amount of fifty dollars- per month; that he employed Nelva G. Beakley as his clerk and stenographer at a monthly salary of fifty dollars; that Nelva G. Beakley started to work September 1, 1937, in…