Reif v. Schwab
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Frank X. Schwab and others, from a peremptory mandamus order of the Supreme Court, made at the Erie Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Erie on the 26th , day of October, 1922, commanding said Ross Graves, as commissioner of finance and accounts of the city of Buffalo, to countersign a warrant drawn on the treasurer of that city, authorizing the payment of an alleged balance of salary due the petitioner.
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.:
The question here presented differs from that in Matter of Fleischmann v. Graves (118 Misc. Rep. 214; affd., 202 App. Div. 825), where the question was one of the right of the board of education to employ and pay legal counsel; and from that in Matter of Fuhrmann v. Graves (203 App. Div. 507), where the superintendent of schools had been engaged at a fixed salary; and from that in Matter of Pillsbury v. Schwab (204 App. Div. 901), where the petitioner was engaged in educational work and belonged to a class whose salary was regulated to a certain extent by statute, and was increased…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- People Ex Rel. Wells Newton Co. v. . CraigNew York Court of Appeals · 1921
- Matter of Hirshfield v. . CookNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Taylor v. Mayor of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
- Fleischmann v. GravesNew York Supreme Court · 1922
- Fuhrmann v. GravesAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1922
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