People ex rel. Price v. Woodbury

This is an application for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to reinstate the relator as section foreman in the department of street cleaning.

For a period of twenty years prior to May 25, 1894, the relator was a member of the police force of this city; on that date he was, pursuant to chapter 375 of the Laws of 1888, retired on his own application and became entitled to a pension which was fixed at $650 per annum by the police commissioners.

Thereafter he became an employee of the street cleaning department and on December 31, 1901, he held the position of section foreman…