People v. Dooley
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Edward J. Dooley and. others, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 23d day of January, 1902, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term overruling a demurrer to the said defendants’ answer. * This action was brought by the Attorney-General, pursuant to section 1948…
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Appeal by the plaintiff, The People of the State of New York, from an interlocutory judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendants, Edward J. Dooley and. others, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings on the 23d day of January, 1902, upon the decision of the court rendered after a trial at the Kings County Special Term overruling a demurrer to the said defendants’ answer. * This action was brought by the Attorney-General, pursuant to section 1948 of the Code of Civil Procedure, against certain persons alleged to have usurped and entered into the public office of…
1Opinion of the Court
Willard Bartlett, J.:
The determination of this appeal depends upon the constitutionality of the amendments to the Greater Yew York charter enacted by the Legislature of 1901, providing that the city magistrates in the second division of the city of Yew York should be elected instead of being appointed by the mayor.
Under the Greater Yew York charter as originally enacted (Laws of 1897, chap. 378) the city of Yew York was divided into two divisions for the purposes of the administration of criminal justice. The first division comprised the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx; the second…
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- People Ex Rel. Townsend v. PorterNew York Court of Appeals · 1882
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