People Ex Rel. Percival v. . Cram
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 19,1900, affirming an order of Special Term granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to reinstate the relator in the position of dockmaster in the department of docks and ferries of the city of Mew York. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered April 19,1900, affirming an order of Special Term granting a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the defendants to reinstate the relator in the position of dockmaster in the department of docks and ferries of the city of Mew York. The facts, so far as material, are stated in the opinion. The commissioners of docks and ferries of the city of Mew York had power under the provisions of the Greater Mew York charter to remove the relator at their pleasure. (L. 1897, ch. 378, § 1536;…
1Opinion of the CourtCullen, J.
The relator at the time of the consolidation of the two cities was serving as a superintendent of docks in the office of the comptroller of the city of Brooklyn. Under the plan formulated by the mayors of the two cities and the county officers in the other consolidated territory, as pr'e- scribed by section 1536 of the Greater New York Charter (Chap. 378, Laws of 1897), he was transferred to service in the comptroller’s office in the city of New York. There was an error in this plan of'transfer, for under the charter of the consolidated city the control of the docks did not fall within the…
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