In re Roche
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, Patrick K. Roche, 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 4th day of August, 1910, denying his application for a writ of mandamus to" compel the fire commissioner to place the petitioner' on the' pension roll’of the fire department.
1Opinion of the Court
."W OODWARD, J. I
The petitioner was appointed under civil service regulations as a, pilot for one of the fireboats of'the city of New York in' 1887, and has served continuously as such pilot up to" the present year, when he made an application to be retired upon a pension. His .application was duly acted upon and he was retired from the service with an annual pension of $500. This is one-third of his annual salary as pilot, and the petitioner moved the court to compel the commissioner of the tire department to place him upon the pension roll at $750 a year, or one-half his regular salary. If…
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