Langdon v. Teachers' Retirement Board

This is a motion for peremptory order of mandamus commanding the defendant teachers’ retirement board of the city of New York to retire the petitioner for disability under the teachers’ retirement system and to pay her a retirement allowance, including a credit for “ two years’ prior service.” The board of examiners at the time of the petitioner’s appointment as a teacher made an allowance to her of two years for business experience with Geo. L. English & Co., where petitioner had been employed as a stenographer for a period of seven and one-half years. In making this allowance the board of…