People ex rel. Young v. Sturgis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Thomas Sturgis, as fire commissioner 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 18th day of March, 1903, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to employ the relator in some position in the fire department of the city of New York, not requiring active service as a…
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Appeal by the defendants, Thomas Sturgis, as fire commissioner 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 18th day of March, 1903, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to employ the relator in some position in the fire department of the city of New York, not requiring active service as a fireman, at the same salary he received before he became disqualified from performing active duty by reason of an injury…
1Opinion of the Court
Goodrich, P. J.:
This appeal is from an order of the Special Term granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants forthwith to “ employ the said William A. Young in some position in the Department in the City of New York, not requiring active service as a *22fireman, at the same salary he received when he became disqualified from performing active duty in the uniformed force while in the active discharge of his duties as such fireman at a fire in the City of Hew York, and to return to him his shield, buttons and other insignia of office, and permit him to perform the duties of…
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