In re Tobin
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Margaret Tobin, 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 13th day of April, 1900, denying her application for a peremptory writ of mandamus, requiring him to pay the sum of $1,000 to the petitioner.
1Opinion of the Court
TIikschbebg, J. :
The relator is the widow of John J. Tobin, who died on the 6th day of April, 1896. He had been a member of the uniformed force of the fire department of the city of Brooklyn for more than ten-years, and on the 1st day of November, 1895, was retired on pension. The relator’s app>lication was for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the respondent, John J. Scanned, as fire commissioner of the city of New York, to pay to her the sum of $1,000 from the Brooklyn fire department widows and orphans’ relief fund, pursuant to section 15 of title 13 of the charter of the late city…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Otsego County Bank v. Board of Supervisors of Otsego CountyNew York Court of Appeals · 1873
3Cited by4 opinions
- Matter of Verdecanna v. CareyNew York Court of Appeals · 1941
- In re TobinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- In re TobinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- Kent v. Common CouncilNew York Supreme Court · 1903