Quinn v. Streeter

This is an application brought under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act. That article is sufficiently comprehensive to provide for the review and mandate which petitioner seeks. Doubtless the article came into being to obviate the errors and confusion that for years existed between the remedies of certiorari and mandamus. (People ex rel. Schau v. McWilliams, 185 N. Y. 92, 101.)

Petitioner asks for a review of the determination of the civil service commission in refusing to allow the appeal of the petitioner from a determination of such commission. Petitioner also seeks a final order…