People ex rel. Hardy v. Greene
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Francis Vinton Greene, as police commissioner of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the ■office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 3d day of June, 1903, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendant to retire the relator from service on the police force and to place him upon the police pension roll.
1Opinion of the Court
Hirschberg, J.:
On May 11, 1903, the relator, a captain on the police force of the city of New York, applied in writing to the respondent, the police commissioner of said city, to be retired from service and to be placed upon the police pension roll, with an award during life of half-pay, amounting annually to. the sum of $1,375. The application was denied by the commissioner for the reason that serious charges of neglect of duty which, if proven, might justify his dismissal from the force, had been duly preferred against the relator on'May 6, 1903, and had resulted in his lawful suspension…
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