People ex rel. Lodholz v. Knox
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Knox and others, as commissioners, constituting 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 21st day of January, 1901, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring them to certify that an increase, of salary as prayed for by the relator had been made pursuant…
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Appeal by the defendants, Charles H. Knox and others, as commissioners, constituting 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 21st day of January, 1901, directing the issuance of a peremptory writ of mandamus requiring them to certify that an increase, of salary as prayed for by the relator had been made pursuant to law.
1Opinion of the Court
Rumsey, J.:
The relator, having passed a competitive examination for the position of topographical draughtsman in the office of the commissioner of street improvements of the twenty-third arid twenty-fourth wards of the city of New York, received a permanent appointment to that office on the 15tli of July, 1897. On.the 1st of January, 1898, upon the organization of the city of Greater New York,, he was transferred to the department of sewers as a topographical draughtsman and entered upon the performance of his duties as such,, and has continued to be. a topographical draughtsman down to this…
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