People ex rel. Fowler v. Moskowitz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Henry Moskowitz and others, from an orderof the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 19th day of April, 1916, granting the relators’ motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus directing the municipal civil service commission to admit the relators and others similarly situated to a competitive examination for the position of chief examiner, civil service commission.
1Per curiam
In January, 1916, the civil service classification of the city of New York included a “chief examiner, civil service commission,” and twenty-nine persons respectively classified by the commission as “civil service examiner.” This official classification did not distinguish between three persons having office titles of “assistant chief examiner,” ten examiners paid by yearly salary, and sixteen examiners employed by the day, who assist when the work is too great for the salaried force, being also called on to act as to examinations involving technical knowledge and special skill. Some of these…
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