Dixon v. Laguardia

The petitioner is an employee of the city of New York. He alleges that on October 29, 1937, the board of estimate and apportionment adopted a budget for the city of New York for the year 1938, which was thereafter approved without change by the board of aldermen, and which fixed his salary for that year in the sum of $4,000. He demands that the payrolls be accordingly certified in that amount. He is met with the objection that the budget to which he refers is no budget at all, since it had never been legally adopted, and that the legal budget of the city of New York for the year 1938 is a…