Bell v. City of Few York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New Yorb, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Westchester on the 13th day of July, 1899, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Westchester Trial Term, the jury having been -discharged at the close of the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
The plaintiff sues to recover her salary from September 1, 1895, to September 1, 1896, as librarian of a school district formerly in the town of East Chester. The answer sets up the defense that her office or employment ended on June 6, 1895, by the passage of the act hereinafter referred to as the Annexation Act. At the close of the trial each side moved for the direction of a verdict; the jury were discharged and the court rendered a decision in favor of the plaintiff. This decision contains a finding that the plaintiff, who was then librarian of the school district, on May…
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