Collins v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, The City of New York, from an order of the Appellate Term of the Supreme Court, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New' York on the 22d day of December, 1911, affirming a judgment of the Municipal Court of the city of New York in favor of the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the Court
Scott, J.:
Plaintiff was a steam, engineer in the employ of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, at the compensation of four dollars and fifty cents per diem, and he sues for payment at that rate for the period from December 16 to 31, 1908.
In the year 1908 the commissioner of public buildings and offices, under the borough president of the borough of Brooklyn, found in November that he was in .danger of overrunning the appropriation for salaries and wages for his department during’ the year, and that it would be impossible to continue during the remainder of the year to pay the amount of…
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