People ex rel. Schumann v. Coler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Bird S. Coler, as comptroller of the city of New York, and another, 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 27tli day of January, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, directed to the defendants, requiring the defendant James.
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Appeal by the defendants, Bird S. Coler, as comptroller of the city of New York, and another, 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 27tli day of January, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, directed to the defendants, requiring the defendant James. McCartney, as - commissioner of street cleaning of the city of New York, to certify to the defendant Bird S. Col'er, as comptroller of the city of New York, that the relator has rendered and performed services…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Curiam :
The relator is a veteran of the Civil War,- and at the time of the consolidation of New York and Brooklyn was an employee in the department of city works of the latter city as a street inspector, his , duty being the supervision of the street cleaning in a district of the city. On the transfer of employees directed by the charter, the relator, with all the other street inspectors of Brooklyn, was assigned to duty by the commissioner of street cleaning as section foreman. The relator’s salary before the consolidation was $1,200 per annum. *617The salary of section foremen prescribed…
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- People Ex Rel. Jacobus v. . Van WyckNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
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- People ex rel. Hartough v. ScannellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900