Kosky v. McNamara

Section 2 of chapter 927 of the Laws of 1939, commonly known as the Wicks Law, provides in part that every city and public agency “ unifying, purchasing, acquiring and owning and operating a transit facility shall continue to employ all employees of any corporation theretofore owning or operating such transit facility * * * who shall have been in the employ of said corporation for one year or more immediately prior to such acquisition ”.

The present petitioner, suing on his own behalf and on behalf of forty-four others, bases his application upon the contention that the city of New York did…