Matter of Fuhrmann v. . Graves

McLaughlin,

J, The board of education of the city of- Buffalo, is a corporation. (Matter of Fleischmann v. Graves, 235 N. Y. 84.) It has charge of the public school system of such city, with sole and exclusive authority to employ superintendents and teachers and fix their salaries. (Laws of 1919, chap. 645; Matter of Emerson v. Buck, 230 N. Y. 380.) On the 26th of December, 1919, in pursuance of the power thus given, it fixed the salary of Ernest C. Hartwell, one of the respondents, as superintendent of schools, at $10,000. Earlier in the year his salary had been fixed at the same amount by…