Legal Opinion

O'Sullivan v. Knox

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided July 1, 1900PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal by Charles II. Knox and others, commissioners of the municipal civil service commission of the city of New York, 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 4th day of September, 1900, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the defendants to place the name ■of the relator upon the payroll, and certify the amount of relator’s salary or compensation to the…

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Appeal by Charles II. Knox and others, commissioners of the municipal civil service commission of the city of New York, 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 4th day of September, 1900, granting a peremptory writ of mandamus commanding the defendants to place the name ■of the relator upon the payroll, and certify the amount of relator’s salary or compensation to the comptroller of the city of New York, from the 10th day of August, 1899, to the 16th day of October,°1899, and also to certify…

1Opinion of the Court

Hatch, J.:

It appears by the stipulation of the parties made herein. and the testimony of the relator that on March 19, 1898, he was appointed a temporary stenographer of the Municipal Court .of the city of New York, in the fifth district of the borough of Manhattan, by Henry M. Groldfogle, judge of such court; that he entered upon the discharge of his duties on the 1st day of April, 1898, and continued therein to the 16th day of October, 1899.

The defendants certified to the employment of the relator upon the payrolls of the city up to the 10th day of August, 1899, but refused after that time…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wittmer v. City of New YorkAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Ulrich v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1900
  2. Deering v. City of New YorkNew York Supreme Court · 1907

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