Stich v. Wagner

This is a proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act.

Petitioners are Supreme Court stenographers in the First Department and in Kings County of the Second District of the Second Department. Respondents are the members of the Board of Estimate of the City of New York and the Treasurer of the City of New York. Petitioners seek by this proceeding to obtain the higher pay to which they deem themselves entitled by statute, and all arrears thereof.

The petitioners’ claim is based in the first instance upon a 1961 statute, to wit, chapter 492 of the Laws of 1961 which provides for an…