Guastoferri v. Board of Education

In an action to restrain the Board of Education of the City of New York from procuring persons other than civil service employees to perform the duties of elevator operators in schools, now and heretofore performed by persons appointed from civil service lists, judgment in favor of plaintiff reversed on the law, with costs, and the complaint dismissed on the law, without costs. The “ indirect system ” which permits the hiring of custodial help by custodian-engineers, who are civil service employees, appointed after *947competitive examination, does not violate the provisions of section 6 of…