Case Name: The City of Galveston v. Patrick Murphy
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1879-03-14
Citations: 1 White & W. 400
Docket Number: No. —, Tex. L. J., vol. 2, p. 570
Parties: The City of Galveston v. Patrick Murphy.
Judges: 
Reporter: Condensed Reports of Decisions in Civil Causes in the Court of Appeals (White & Wilson)
Volume: 1
Pages: 400–401

Head Matter:
The City of Galveston v. Patrick Murphy.
(No. —, Tex. L. J., vol. 2, p. 570.)
Appeal from Galveston County.

Opinion:
Opinion by
Winkler, J.
§ 732. Policeman's salary; reduction of after commencement of employment. Where a policeman employed by the year at $100 per month was duly notified of the passage of a resolution by the council reducing the pay of such employees to $75 per month, and afterwards con tinued in the service, drawing and receipting for the latter sum each month until the end of his term, and entered no protest against the amount, nor claimed any greater pay, held that, by his acts and by his silence, he acquiesced in the acts of the city council reducing his pay to $75' per month, and could not go behind such acquiescence and recover a larger sum for his services. [Dillon qn Municipal Corp. § 169, 170; 2 Pars, on Cont. 792 et seq. note 5, p. 795; Welland Canal Co. v. Hathaway, 8 Wend. 481.]
March 14, 1879.
Reversed and rendered.