Williamson v. City of Troy

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Rensselaer County) to review a determination of respondent which terminated petitioner’s disability benefits payable under General Municipal Law § 207-a.

In 1985, petitioner, while employed as a firefighter in respondent’s fire department, filed a certificate of doing business in the name of “Jim Williamson’s Used Cars” for the purpose of engaging in the secondary employment of buying, selling and repairing used cars. In December 1990, as a result of back injuries, petitioner was granted…