Fraser v. City of Norwich

The assignments of error on this appeal question only the conclusions of the trial court. The gist of those conclusions is that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover the amounts by which his pay as a police officer was reduced by resolution of the common council of the city of Norwich in order to appropriate those amounts to the city’s police benefit reserve fund.

In April, 1903, pursuant to the statutes then in effect, General Statutes, Rev. 1902, c. 124, the city of Norwich established a police reserve fund to provide money from which retired police officers could receive retirement pay.…