People ex rel. Chamberlain v. Knox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Knox and others, composing the municipal civil service commission of the city of New York, 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 10th day of October, 1899, granting the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
On the 28th day of June, 1899, the board of city magistrates of the first division of the city of New York appointed the relator a polide clerk’s assistant, to take effect July 1, 1899, and he qualified *519and entered upon the performance of his duties as such, and continues to perform them. He received no pay for the months of July, August or September. The appellants, who compose the municipal civil service commission of the city, refused to issue to him a certificate that he had been appointed or employed in pursuance of law,,and of the civil service rules made in pursuance of law,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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