Howard v. Kross

This is an application pursuant to article 78 of the Civil Practice Act for an order directing the respondent Commissioner of the Department of Correction of the City of New York to rescind her termination of the petitioner’s services as a correction officer in the said Department of Correction, made at the end of the probationary period, and to reinstate the petitioner on a permanent basis with back pay.

Petitioner passed the requisite civil service examinations and on April 6, 1959 was duly appointed a correction officer and assigned to the House of Detention for Women for a probationary…