Rogers v. . Common Council of Buffalo
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made January 11, 1889, which affirmed a judgment In favor ■of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term.
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Appeal from judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the fifth judicial department, entered upon an order made January 11, 1889, which affirmed a judgment In favor ■of plaintiff entered upon a decision of the court on trial at Special Term. This action was brought by plaintiff, as a tax-payer of the ■city of Buffalo, to restrain the defendants, the common council and mayor, etc., of said -city, -from authorizing, drawing or paying any warrant for the salary of the defendant Ceriac Diebold, as street and health inspector of the city of Buffalo, oil the ground that his .appointment…
1Opinion of the CourtPeckham, J.
Long prior to the passage of the first so-called Civil Service Reform Act by the federal congress, the condition of that service and the method of appointment thereto had become the subject of most anxious thought on the part of many upright, intelligent and experienced men. The semi-barbarous maxim that “ to the victors belong the spoils,” had been the foundation-stone upon which the system of appointments to the civil service of the nation had been placed for a number of years. The system had grown to such proportions under the necessary enlargement of the service, and it had become in…
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