Bruno v. Kern

Pécora, J.

This is an application for an order directing the municipal civil service commission to correct its rating of the answer given by each of the seventeen petitioners to question *959No. 34 on a written promotion examination, held on November 2, 1939, for the position of clerk, grade 2, in the civil service of the city of New York. The court is asked to direct the commission to credit each petitioner with having answered the question correctly and to raise his rating from 69 to 70.

Question No. 34 and the instructions for answering it read as follows:

“ Items 34 to 53 consist of twenty…