People ex rel. Croft v. Keating
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, J ames P. Keating, as commissioner of highways, 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 7th day of September, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the said James P. Keating, as commissioner of highways of the city of New York, to forthwith reinstate and employ the relator in the place of assistant foreman,…
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Appeal by the defendant, J ames P. Keating, as commissioner of highways, 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 7th day of September, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring the said James P. Keating, as commissioner of highways of the city of New York, to forthwith reinstate and employ the relator in the place of assistant foreman, or in some position in the service drawing the same pay as assistant foreman, with all the salary, interest and…
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The relator alleges that he is a veteran of the war of the Rebellion and that, being an assistant foreman in the department of high*124ways, at a salary of two dollars and fifty cents a day, he was, on the 30th of June, 1898, removed from that position and the position abolished, and that he was put to work as a laborer, receiving pay by the hour; and he' asks that a peremptory writ of mandamus be granted, addressed to the commissioner of highways, to transfer him to some other branch of the service to a duty which he is able to fulfill in which he will receive the same compensation as…
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