Sullivan v. City of New York

In the early part of January, 1896, the plaintiff, a laborer employed by the park department at a compensation of one dollar and seventy-six cents per day, absented himself from work on account of illness. He thereafter notified the officers of the department of his sickness, and on or about April 24, 1896, reported for work to Mr. Parsons, the superintendent of the department; but the plaintiff was not reinstated; his name, in accordance with a rule of the department, had been dropped from the pay-roll during the week ending January 11, 1896, and he has not since that time been in the employ…