People ex rel. Hughes v. Partridge
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, William Hughes, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Kings County Special Term and entered in the office of the- clerk of the county of Kings on the 14th day of May, 1902, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus, requiring the respondent to grade the said relator as a detective sergeant of police on the police force of the city of Hew York, with the rank and pay of sergeant of police in said city.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The order denying relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus should be affirmed. While we are not disposed to approve of the suggestion that the statute might not be made operative within the construction given it by the relator, in so far as the Constitution is involved, we do not believe that a fair construction of' the law, in connection with the facts, gives the relator any new rights. The evident scheme of the provisions of section 290 of the Greater Hew York charter (Laws of 1897, chap. 378) as amended in 1901 (Chap. 466), was to perpetuate the detective bureau of…
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