People ex rel. Gambling v. Board of Police
New York Supreme Court
Certiorari to the Board of Police for the Metropolitan Police District. The facts appear in the report of The People on rel. Gambling a. Cholwell, supra, and in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.*
Davies, C. J. The return to the writ of *163certiorari in these cases and others, brings up the question whether the relators have been legally dismissed as policemen of the city of Hew York.
They were duly and legally appointed under the act of April 13,1853. (Laws of 1853, ch. 228.) By section 2 of article 3 of that act, it was declared that “ the members of the police department, appointed after this act shall have gone into effect, shall hold them offices during good behavior, and shall only be removed for cause, as hereinafter provided.” Section 4 of the same article prescribes…
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