People ex rel. Coyne v. Shea
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the relator, Thomas Gf. Coyne, 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 19th day of March, 1902, denying the relator’s motion for a peremptory writ of mandamus.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The facts in this case are the same as those in the case of People ex rel. Melledy v. Shea, (73 App. Div. 232), with the one exception that the relator herein resides in the borough of Manhattan instead of the borough of the Bronx. This exception, however, clearly distinguishes this case from that. In the Melledy case we held that the civil service commission had no power to subdivide existing localities into districts, but that it did have power to certify separate lists to such localities as had been created by legislative act. The city of New York has been divided by the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- People ex rel. Melledy v. SheaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1902
3Cited by2 opinions
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