Liebowitz v. Goldwater

Pécora, J.

The petitioner, a suspended civil service employee, makes an application for an order of mandamus under section 31-b of the Civil Service Law, to be restored to duty in his position of architectural draftsman, grade 4, in the department of hospitals.

On the 1st day of May, 1934, he was suspended from that position under the provisions of section 31 of the Civil Service Law because of lack of work, and since that time has remained on the preferred list for reappointment. He questions the good faith of the suspension for lack of work, by alleging that the work in which he was engaged…