Matter of Carey v. Morton

With the important and far-reaching decision which the court is here making I cannot agree. I am persuaded that a construction has been given to section 6 of article V of the State Constitution which its words cannot be made to bear.

A number of eligibles on a civil service promotion list, all honorably discharged veterans, applied to the Municipal Civil Service Commission of the City of New York for disabled veterans’ preference. As to each of those here involved, the United States Veterans’ Administration certified (1) that he had sustained a disability in the war and (2) that that…