Youngman V. Nevada Irrigation District

MOSK, J. Plaintiffs in this action are William Youngman, an employee of the Nevada Irrigation District, and Local 1245 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (hereafter IBEW), which represents employees of the district.defendants are the district and its directors. Plaintiffs filed a complaint asserting that the district's employees were entitled to salary increases in 1965 on the basis of merit, that the district had entered into an implied and an express contract to grant such increases, but that it had refused to do so. Defendants filed a demurrer specifying both general and special grounds, and it was sustained by the trial court without leave to amend. Plaintiffs appeal from the ensuing judgment.