Legal Opinion

People, Ex Rel. Ryan v. . French

New York Court of Appeals

Decided April 11, 1882PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made March 11, 1881, which affirmed an order of Special Term, denying the application of the relator for a peremptory mcmdamus, requiring defendants, as commissioners, composing the board of police of the police department of the city of blew York, to pay to the relator a balance of salary alleged to be due to him as patrolman.

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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the first judicial department, made March 11, 1881, which affirmed an order of Special Term, denying the application of the relator for a peremptory mcmdamus, requiring defendants, as commissioners, composing the board of police of the police department of the city of blew York, to pay to the relator a balance of salary alleged to be due to him as patrolman. (¡Reported below, 24 Finn, 263.) The moving affidavits aver that on the 21st day of July, 1876, the relator, being a police officer, while assisting another officer in making…

1Opinion of the Court

[EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] [EDITORS' NOTE: THIS PAGE CONTAINS HEADNOTES. HEADNOTES ARE NOT AN OFFICIAL PRODUCT OF THE COURT, THEREFORE THEY ARE NOT DISPLAYED.] The decision of April 11, 1882, was upon the following opinion: The relator's compensation was declared by section 43, of the "Act to reorganize the local government of the city of New York" (Laws of 1873, chap. 335), to be the amount then "legally paid" to such officer, and this amount is also declared to be the "salary and…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Conner v. . the Mayor, C. of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1851
  2. McVeany v. Mayor, Aldermen & CommonaltyNew York Court of Appeals · 1880
  3. People Ex Rel. Satterlee v. . Board of PoliceNew York Court of Appeals · 1878
  4. Terhune v. . Mayor, Etc., City of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1882

3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Matter of Sullivan v. TaylorNew York Court of Appeals · 1939
  2. Be Boest v. GambellOregon Supreme Court · 1899
  3. O'Hara v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
  4. Malcolm v. City of BostonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1899
  5. Nelson v. City of SuperiorWisconsin Supreme Court · 1901

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