People ex rel. Machen v. Hayes

This is an application for a writ of mandamus directed to the respondent as commissioner of water supply of the city of New York requiring him to reinstate the relator as an assistant engineer in the department at a salary of $5,000 a year.

*375It appears from the petition that the relator had been an assistant engineer in the department since July 1, 1911, at an annual salary of $5,000; that on August 31, 1918, he left his position to enter the federal military service (in which he had been commissioned a major in the ordnance reserve corps about July 1, 1918), and that he was honorably…