Ordway v. Leary

The complaint alleges that the defendant Leary, as president justice of the Municipal Court of the City of New York, has appointed or purported to appoint clerks to individual justices of the court whom he has, however, assigned to perform the duties of assistant clerks of the Municipal Court and who have been ever since their appointment and are now performing the duties of assistant clerks; that the purpose of these appointments has been “ to evade the requirement of appointing the ten assistant clerks from competitive eligible lists now in existence,” and that the defendant Leary has been…