People ex rel.Corkhill v. McAdoo
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, William McAdoo, as police commissioner of the city of New York, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the lltli day of July, 1904, granting an alternative' writ of mandamus directing the defendant to reinstate the relator as complaint clerk of the police department of the city of New York of the bureau of records and complaints thereof.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodwabd, J.:
It is admitted in this proceeding that the relator was duly appointed complaint clerk in the police department of the city of New York on the 31st day of December, 1902, and that on the 11th day of February, 1904, it was “ Ordered, that Robert B. Saul be and is hereby appointed Complaint Clerk in the Police Department, with compensation of $2,000 per annum, in place of John J. Corkliill, who is hereby removed.” The relator claims protection under the provisions of section 1543 of chapter 466 of the Laws of 1901, being the Greater New York charter, that “ no regular clerk or head *313o…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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