Matter of O'Connell v. Kern

On June 30, 1939, petitioner, along with others including the defendant Dowd, was, through no delinquency or misconduct on her part, suspended without pay from the competitive civil service position she then held as clerk, grade 3, in the Marriage License Bureau in the office of the City Clerk of the City of New York, and her name was thereupon, with those of the others then similarly suspended with her, entered upon a preferred list for the position last held by her or any other position having the same or similar requirements for entrance as provided in section 31 of the Civil Service Law…