People ex rel. Crowell v. Connolly
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Certiorari issued out of the Supreme Court and attested on the 20th day of October, 1913, directed to Maurice E. Connolly, as president of the borough of Queens of the city of New York, commanding him to certify and return to the office of the clerk of the county of Kings all and singular his proceedings had in. dismissing the relator from his office of assistant engineer of the topographical bureau of the borough of Queens.
1Opinion of the Court
Putnam, J.:
The relator, in January, 1900, was appointed assistant engineer in the department of bridges, and as such had charge of the triangulation for the Queensboro and Manhattan bridges, also of other important surveys. In 1903 he was promoted to the topographical bureau of Queens borough, and so continued until the proceedings for his removal hereafter mentioned-With the return to the writ appears a report by Mr. Fosdick, commissioner of accounts, to the mayor, dated August, 1910, in which were certain criticisms of the topographical bureau of Queens borough. This report was followed by…
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