People Ex Rel. Callahan v. Board of Education
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 9, 1903, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to Compel the defendant to reinstate the relator in the position-of teacher in the fourth grammar grade in the public schools of the city of New York.
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Appeal from an order of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the second judicial department, entered January 9, 1903, which affirmed an order of Special Term granting a motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus to Compel the defendant to reinstate the relator in the position-of teacher in the fourth grammar grade in the public schools of the city of New York. In her petition for the writ, the relator alleged, among other things, that on the 1st of February, 1898, she “ was appointed as a teacher of the Sixth Grammar Grade Mixed in Public School No. 89 of the City of Brooklyn under a…
1Opinion of the CourtVann, J.
The rights of the parties to this proceeding depend upon the meaning of certain sections of the charter of the present city of Hew York, as enacted May 1st, 1897, to take effect January 1st, 1898. (L. 1897, ch. 378.) In construing a statute, light is generally thrown upon its meaning by considering any other statute upon the same subject, which either preceded or followed it. Therefore, as an aid to the interpretation of the statute directly involved in this litigation, we will briefly refer to the law as it was before that statute was passed and to changes since made in the statute itself.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- People Ex Rel. Beaman v. . FeitnerNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
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