Barlow v. Craig
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Ellen Shaw Barlow, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 14th day of February, 1924, denjdng her motion for an injunction pendente lite in a taxpayer’s action. (See 122 Misc. Rep. 518; Gen. Mun. Law, § 51.)
1Opinion of the Court
McAvoy, J.:
The plaintiff appeals from an order which denied her motion for an injunction pending the action. The plaintiff is a taxpayer and seeks to enjoin the city officials having cognizance thereof from certifying on the payrolls of the police department the name of one Thomas E. O’Brien as superintendent of buildings in the police department of the city of New York, and from paying him the salary fixed for such office at the rate of $5,000 per annum; and the motion seeks further to enjoin O’Brien from receiving the compensation and from performing the duties of superintendent of…
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