New York Supreme Court July 15, 1902 (Driscoll v. City of New York)

Nash, J.

The plaintiff, on or about the 15th day of May, 1896, was appointed by the commissioner of street cleaning as a mason in the department of street cleaning, borough of Manhattan, at a salary of three dollars and fifty cents per day. On or about the 2d of January, 1900, the commissioner of street cleaning increased the plaintiff’s compensation to four dollars per day.