Grant v. City of Rochester
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of Rochester, from, a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Monroe on the 23d day of June, 1902, upon the decision of the court, rendered after a trial at the Monroe Special Term, sustaining the plaintiff’s demurrer to the third separate defense contained in the defendant’s answer.
1Opinion of the Court
Nash, J.:
The plaintiff sues to recover arrears of salary as commissioner of public works of the city of Rochester for the years 1900 and 1901. *461The salary was fixed at $4,000 per annum, or $8,000 for the two years, upon which the plaintiff received only the sum of $7,300, leaving unpaid $700.
The answer denies that there is any balance of the salary unpaid, and alleges: “ That after the said appointment of the plaintiff as commissioner of public works of said city and after the action of the board of estimate and apportionment of said city, designating the sum of $4,000 per annum as the amount…
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