People ex rel. White v. Coler
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal from special term, New York county. Mandamus by the people, on the relation of Thomas J. White, to Bird S. Coler, as comptroller of the city of New York, to compel relator’s reinstatement in a clerkship of the competitive class. From an order granting a peremptory writ, defendant appeals.
1Per curiam
On the 6th of September, 1899, the relator was appointed, for a probationary term of three months, clerk in the bureau for the collection, of taxes in the finance department of the city of New York, at a compensation of $1,000 per annum, to take effect September 11, 1899. He was assigned for duty to the borough of Manhattan: Three days before the expiration of his probationary period he was dismissed under a provision of rule 35 of the then municipal civil service rules. We will assume, for the purpose of the decision of this case, that such dismissal was unauthorized, and that what was…
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