Carolan v. Schechter

This a proceeding by a group of park department employees, directed to the members of the department of personnel of the City of New York, the city comptroller and its commissioner of parks, which brings into question the validity of the park commissioner’s action in assigning duties to certain other employees in that department and establishing them in positions said to be beyond their civil service status.

The petitioners are supervisors of park operations and their complaint is directed in the main to what they consider to be the privileged status accorded certain other supervisors. They…