Supreme Court of Virginia January 22, 1982, Record No. 790944 (Aydlette v. City of Virginia Beach)

CARRICO, C.J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

By a bill in equity filed in the court below, Douglas W. Aydlette and 61 other members of the Virginia Beach Police Department (the complainants) sought a determination that they had been promoted, rather than laterally transferred, when they became detectives and, therefore, that they were entitled to the increased compensation attendant upon a