People ex rel. Curtin v. Board of Education
New York Supreme Court
Appeal from special term, Kings county. Application by John J. Curtin for mandamus to compel the board of education of the city of Brooklyn to reinstate him", as an honorably discharged Union sailor, to his position as a gas-fitter in the employment of said board. From an order refusing a peremptory mandamus relator appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDykman, J.
The relator is a veteran sailor of the war of the Rebellion, and he was employed as a gas-fitter by the board of education of the city of Brooklyn, and was dismissed by the board in the month of February, 1891. He thereupon applied to the special term of the supreme court for a peremptory writ of mandamus to compel his reinstatement by the board. Upon such application the chairman of the heating and ventilating committee of the board of education made an affidavit, in which he stated that the relator was discharged for failure to properly attend to his duties. If that allegation be true, it…
2Cited by1 opinion
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