Lazarus v. City of New York

This is a motion for a temporary injunction in an action to restrain the city of New York and the members of the board of estimate and apportionment from interfering with the plaintiff’s continuance in office as commissioner of records. A similar motion is made in an action by plaintiff Philip F. Donohue, who is a member of the board of water supply. As the facts in both cases are parallel and the issues of law involved identical, both motions will be treated together in this opinion.

Each plaintiff is seventy-six years old, and both are members of the New York city employees’ retirement…