People Ex Rel. Satterlee v. . Board of Police
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, reversing an order of Special Term, which directed the issuing of a writ of peremptory mandamus directed to the board of police of the city of New York, commanding them to draw their requisition upon the comptroller of the city of New York, requiring him to pay over to the treasurer of said city certain balances claimed to be due him upon his salary as police surgeon.
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Appeal from order of the General Term of the Supreme Court, in the first judicial department, reversing an order of Special Term, which directed the issuing of a writ of peremptory mandamus directed to the board of police of the city of New York, commanding them to draw their requisition upon the comptroller of the city of New York, requiring him to pay over to the treasurer of said city certain balances claimed to be due him upon his salary as police surgeon. (Reported below, 12 Hun, 653.) The relator was appointed a police surgeon on September 21, 1873, by the board of police, under a…
1Opinion of the CourtMiller, J.
The relator seeks relief by mandamus against the police commissioners, commanding them to draw their requisition upon the comptroller, compelling him to pay over to the treasurer of said board the balance due the relator for his salary, as a surgeon. The resolution of the board, conferring upon him the appointment, fixes the annual salary at $1,500. The relator claims, however, that the salary is ' established at the sum of $2,250, by statute (S. L. of 1866, chap. 861, § 63), which declares that the salary and compensation of each surgeon shall be the sum last named. The relator was appointed…
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