Murtha v. Monaghan

The Commissioner of Harness Racing appeals from an order directing him to accept petitioner’s application for a license as a mutuel clerk and to issue such license. The peti*180tioner is employed by the Board of Education, Union Free School District No. 23, in Nassau County, as a physical education teacher and receives an annual salary of $6,700. Between the years 1947 and 1953, except during absence in the military service, petitioner was employed as a mutuel clerk at Roosevelt Raceway.

In . June, 1955, petitioner filed with the New York State Harness Racing Commission a written application for a…