People ex rel. Distler v. McGuire

The relator is now upon the eligible list for court attendant in Queéns borough. He seeks a writ of mandamus to the municipal civil service commission as to its lists of persons eligible to be certified for appointment as court attendants under the new act in relation to the inferior criminal courts in the city of Hew York. Laws of 1910, chap. 659.

At present civil service regulation IX, subdivision 5, provides: “ Candidates for the position of court clerk, stenographer or attendant in the City Magistrates’ Court, or in the Municipal Court, must be residents of the borough or other prescribed…