Breen v. Board of Trustees

Petitioner was appointed to the uniformed force of the Fire Department of the City of New York on August 1,1920. By successive promotions he reached the rank of battalion chief. In the line of duty, at a fire, he was injured on December 14, 1945. The medical board of the fire department made a physical examination and on April 12, 1946, certified that he was wholly unfit to perform duty at fires and that he could not be employed at light duty. He was thereupon assigned by the fire commissioner to perform such duty.

*691Having been a member of the department for a period in excess of twenty years,…