MATTER OF GRUMET v. GOODBODY


1 Misc.2d 222 (1953)

In the Matter of Jacob Grumet, Fire Commissioner, as Trustee of the Volunteer Firemen's Benevolent Fund, Petitioner, v. Robert W. Goodbody et al., as Trustees of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund of the County of Kings, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Kings County.

June 17, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denis M. Hurley, Corporation Counsel, for petitioner.

Fred G. Moritt for Michael Dulk, as trustee and treasurer of the Exempt Firemen's Benevolent Fund of the County of Kings, and another, respondents.


JAMES S. BROWN, J.

Before the days of paid city firemen, the various small communities now making up the five boroughs had volunteer firemen just as they do in some suburban communities today. There came a time when the city, in recognition of its indebtedness to these self-sacrificing citizens, created funds to provide financial assistance to those of them and their widows who became indigent and disabled.<...

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