Shaughnessy v. Fornes
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the petitioner, John J. Shaughnessy, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 25th day of April, 1902, denying the petitioner’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Patterson, J.:
The application of the petitioner in this matter for a writ of mandamus was denied at the Special Term, and from the order entered upon such denial this appeal is taken.
The petitioner, a veteran of the Union army in the late Civil war, was on the 6th day of December, 1898, appointed an assistant sergeant-at-arms of the council of the city of New Fork, pursuant to section 27 of the Greater New York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378). At the time of his appointment the municipal assembly consisted of the council and the board of aldermen (§ 17). *463By an amendment of the Greater Rew…
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