Superior Police Officers Benevolent Ass'n v. Hamill

Petitioner, a membership corporation consisting of police officers of villages and other communities in the county of Nassau, seeks to compel the trustees of the village of Lawrence, Nassau county, to rescind a resolution in so far as it purports to abolish the police department of that village and direct the placing of certain former village police officers now members of the Nassau county police department, upon preferred civil service lists for appointment to positions of the rank formerly held by them in the police department of the village.

On December 13, 1938, the board of trustees of…