People ex rel. Deevy v. Ogden

The relator seeks to compel the respondent civil service commissioners to certify upon the pay-roll that he has been duly promoted to the position of captain of police, and to compel the respondent Greene, as police commissioner, to certify his name upon the pay-roll accordingly. The respondent civil service commissioners resist the application upon the ground that when the relator was appointed there was an error in the certificate of his record which was sent to their predecessors in office by the police department, such error consisting of the omission of a charge against the relator in…