Haack v. Banish

This is a petition for mandamus filed by certain members of the police department of the city of Hamtramck to compel payment of salaries claimed to have been unlawfully withheld. The material facts are not in dispute.

Petitioners are members of the Hamtramck police department and had been prior to July 1, 1931. Salaries of members of the police department had been raised during previous years. In June, 1931, the common council of the city of Hamtramck adopted and passed a budget of appropriations for the fiscal year of 1931 and 1932 in which budget the sum of $274,515 was allowed for the…