Matter of Goodman v. Ralph

There is presented to us for our determination the question whether the petitioner is a State employee within the meaning of chapter 187 of the Laws of 1943, providing for the payment of additional war emergency compensation to “ state officers and employees, other than officers and employees of the legislature and judiciary, who are regularly employed * * * The statute contains no definition of the term State employee.

The petitioner was originally appointed a clerk in the office of the Register of the County of New York as a civil service employee in the competitive class in the Mortgage Tax…