People ex rel. Allen v. York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Bernard J. York and others, as commissioners of police, constituting the board of police of the department of police of the city of-blew York, 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 Yew York on the 26th day of March, 1903, discontinuing the above-entitled proceeding without prejudice to the right of the relator to sue.
1Opinion of the Court
Laughlin, J.:
On the 3d of July, 1896, the relator, then a patrolman in the police department of the city of Yew York, was assigned to duty in the detective bureau, where he continued to perform duty until the 1st day of January, 1898, at which time the Greater Yew York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378, § 1611) took effect. The relator, claiming to have been so continued in office and to have become a detective sergeant by that act, instituted this mandamus proceeding to compel the payment of the difference between $1,300 per annum, the salary received by him since January 1, 1898, and $2,000…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- People ex rel. Daly v. YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1901
- People Ex Rel. Daly v. . YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
3Cited by2 opinions
- People ex rel. Arfken v. YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
- People ex rel. Morgan v. BinghamAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1906