Powers v. La Guardia

Application under article .78 of the Civil Practice Act. The relief sought is the equivalent of a peremptory mandamus order to direct the respondents to pay petitioners accrued and future increments of salary by virtue of the provisions of sections 40 and 41 of the Civil Service Law.

*626Petitioners are employees holding a position in one of the services or occupational groups included in said section 40; by the provisions of section 41 of that Law it is provided that such employees shall be entitled to annual increments as therein set forth; petitioners have been employed in the Transit…