Belscher v. New York State Teachers' Retirement System

This case presents the question of the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court to determine an issue of liability for breach of a contract between the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System and the estate of a deceased member thereof. Defendant, New York State Teachers’ Retirement System, appeals from the order of Special Term granting summary judgment to plaintiff as executrix of the will of -Mary I. Brosemer, deceased, on the first cause of action of the complaint in her action to recover interest on the benefit due to the estate by reason of testatrix’s death and denying defendant’s cross…