Fraser v. City of Norwich

Although adopting a premise which seems to me to be untenable, my associates have reached a conclusion in which I concur. The premise upon which they rely is this: Where a city withholds a percentage of the money to which a police officer is entitled for services rendered and turns it over to a fund from which he may eventually draw benefits, his pay is the sum he receives after the deduction is made. Perhaps it may be stated more graphically in this fashion: While the plaintiff was employed by the city for, let us say, $200 a month, from which $4 *50was deducted monthly for the retirement fund,…