Legal Opinion

People ex rel. Cohen v. Waldo

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided November 20, 1914Published

Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on or about the 4th day of February, 1913, directed to Rhine-lander Waldo, as police commissioner of the city of New York, commanding him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of New York all and singular his proceedings had in dismissing the relator from the police force of the city of New York.

1Opinion of the Court

Laughlin, J.:

This proceeding is presented on the record in People ex rel. Murphy v. Waldo (162 App. Div. 861), supplemented by the charges against this relator and proof of service thereof, and the order adjudging the relator guilty and dismissing him from the force, and a verbatim copy of the rule the substance of which only was stated in the other record, and the record of the relator while a member of the force.

This relator and Murphy, whose removal we recently reviewed (162 App. Div. 861), were patrolmen of the New York police force detailed to the seventh precinct for detective work and…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. MarkheimAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1914

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