McGowan v. Mayor, City of NY

OPINION OF THE COURT

Fuchsbekg, J.

The substantive issue we are called upon to determine„is whether, under section 434a-3.0 of the New York City Administrative Code, a New York City police lieutenant *90whom the police commissioner assigned to act in a supervisory capacity in the detective division became entitled per se to an increase in his level of compensation. Insisting that he was, the plaintiff, James P. McGowan, whose case has been severed from consolidated actions in which a considerable number of other lieutenants and sergeants sought similar relief, sued for the statutory salary…