Fuhrmann v. Graves

Clark, J.:

This is a proceeding instituted by the board of education of the city of Buffalo to compel defendant, who is commissioner of finance and accounts of the city, to countersign a warrant in favor of Ernest C. Hartwell, superintendent of schools, for $416.66, being one-half of his salary for July, 1922, on the basis of an annual salary of $10,000.

Early in the yeai 1922 the board of education of the city of Buffalo furnished defendant an estimate of the various amounts that would be required for salaries of the superintendent of schools, teachers and the supervising staff, and other…