Schieffelin v. McLaughlin

Plaintiff in a taxpayer’s action moves to restrain payment to defendant Enright of a pension of $5,000 a year purporting to have been granted pursuant to the provisions of section 14-b of the General City Law (as added by Laws of 1924, chap. 509), providing that “ any person, including a police commissioner, who has * * * or shall have performed duty in the uniformed

police force of any city for a period of twenty years and upwards and who has served as police commissioner * * * for a period of three years, and who is now serving as such, may,” upon stated conditions, be “ granted an annual…