People ex rel. Killilea v. Roosevelt
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 10th day of January, 1896, directed to Theodore Roosevelt and others, police commissioners, composing the board of police commissioners of the police department of the city of New York, commanding them to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular their proceedings relating to the dismissal of the relator from the police force of the city of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The relator was dismissed from the police force by the respondents after a hearing upon a charge of conduct unbecoming an officer, and the specifications of the charge were that he interfered with an officer of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children while that officer was arresting a boy on a charge of vagrancy, and that he compelled that officer to go with him to the station house and acted in a boisterous manner while in the station house, and that before reaching the station house he violently pushed such officer about without any cause or provocation. There…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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3Cited by1 opinion
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