Moser v. Mayor of New York

Baeeett, J.:

The plaintiff was appointed an attendant of the Marine Court, on or about the 1st of April, 1868. His salary was fixed at $1,200 *164per annum, which has been fully paid in monthly installments of $100. Iiis present demand is for an additional sum of $25 per month, which he claims under a resolution of the board of supervisors, passed in the year 1870, fixing the salaries of these attendants at $1,500 per annum. After the adoption of that resolution the pay-rolls were made out as formerly, and the plaintiff regularly receipted each month for $100 in full. He did this, however, under…