People ex rel. Brown v. O'Brien
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, John H. O’Brien, as commissioner, etc., 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 24th day of December, 1909.
1Opinion of the Court
Clarke, J.:
This is an appeal from an order of the Special Term directing a peremptory writ of mandamus to issue commanding the commissioner of water supply, gas and electricity of the city of New York to forthwith and immediately restore, reinstate and retain Frank E. Brown, the relator, to and in the office' and position of electrical engineer of the electrical bureau for the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx.
Relator was in the classified civil service and was the head of a bureau and, therefore, under section 1543 of the charter (Laws of *3121901, cliap. 166) he could not be removed until…
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