Matter of Cosgrove v. Carey

Petitioner, a fireman in the Department of Sanitation, was a member of the relief and pension fund of the former Department of Street Cleaning. He became permanently physically disabled and for that reason, upon the certificate of a majority of the medical examiners of the Department of Sanitation, he was discharged from the department. This proceeding was begun to compel payment to him of a pension of fifty dollars per month, in pursuance of former section 552 of the Greater New York Charter (L. 1901, ch. 466, as amd.), upon the theory that his disability occurred “ while in the actual…