People ex rel. Mulvey v. York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by Bernard J. York and others, police commissioners, ■constituting the police board of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 10th day of April, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a ■peremptory writ of mandamus commanding them to pay to the relator from the pension fund the amount which has accrued to him since the 1st day of January, 1898.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The facts upon which the relator’s right is to be determined are conceded, and the question presented for our solution is purely one of law. The relator was appointed upon the police force of the city of Hew York in 1870, and served thereon until October 17, 1893, holding at that time the rank of a detective sergeant. On the last-named date he was, upon his own application, relieved and dismissed from the force, and was placed upon the roll of the police pension fund of such police force, and thereafter received a pension up to the 1st day of January, 1898, at the rate of $1,000 a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. White v. YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1898
3Cited by7 opinions
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- Mulvey v. WaldoNew York Supreme Court · 1912
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