State Ex Rel. Lewis v. Board of Education of New Haven
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Application for an alternative writ of mandamus to enforce the payment to the relator of a pension or annuity alleged to be due to him under the provisions of an Act amending the charter of the City of New Haven and establishing a teachers’ retirement fund, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and reserved by that court, Williams, J., upon the respondents’ motion to quash the alternative writ, for the advice of this court.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
An amendment to the charter of New Haven, approved July 18th, 1911 (16 Special Laws, p. 323), established a “teachers’ retirement fund” for the benefit of the teachers in the public day schools of New Haven, to be made up of public and private gifts, of assessments upon the annual salaries of all such teachers, and of that portion of such salaries which had been appropriated for the fiscal year but remained unpaid because of the illness, resignation or absence of the teachers.
The Act constituted a board of retirement, and provided that upon a majority vote of this board and of the board of…
2Cited by1 opinion
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